Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS was a British pioneering computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, mathematical biologist, and marathon and ultra distance runner.
Born: June 23, 1912, Maida Vale, London, United Kingdom
Died: June 7, 1954, Wilmslow, United Kingdom
Education: Princeton University (1936–1938), More
Siblings: John Turing
Parents: Julius Mathison Turing, Ethel Sara Stoney
this machine was a German machine used to pass information in WW2 but Alan Turing was the man to crack the coding of enigma and so the allies could listen to all the german communications
What he did
During the Second World War, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaking centre. For a time he led Hut 8, the section responsible for German naval cryptanalysis.
He devised a number of techniques for breaking German ciphers, including improvements to the pre-war Polish bombe method and an electromechanical machine that could find settings for the Enigma machine.
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