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W. T. Tutte, also known as William Thomas Tutte , was a mathematician born on May 14, 1917, in Newmarket, Suffolk . Tutte held citizenship in the United Kingdom and Canada . He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge , and the University of Cambridge . Tutte's doctoral advisor was Shaun Wylie , and he had two notable doctoral students: Neil Robertson and Arthur Hobbs, who were both mathematicians .
Tutte's contributions to the field of mathematics include the BEST theorem, Hanani–Tutte theorem, Peripheral cycle, Tutte 12-cage, Tutte embedding, Tutte graph, Tutte homotopy theorem, Tutte matrix, Tutte polynomial, and more . He passed away in Canada on May 2, 2002 .
He was married to Dorothea Geraldine Mitchell from 1949 until her death in 1994 . Throughout his career, Tutte received several awards, including the Jeffery–Williams Prize, Henry Marshall Tory Medal, Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize, and CRM-Fields-PIMS prize .
