Person
Alan Turing
Defined computability with a thought experiment that became the blueprint for every computer since, then led the codebreaking of the German naval Enigma at Bletchley. His 1950 paper asked whether machines can think; we are still answering.
Photo: Possibly Arthur Reginald Chaffin (1893-1954), via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).
Worked at
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University of Cambridge
to: 1939-09-01 · from: 1935-01-01 · role: Fellow, King's College
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Bletchley Park (GC&CS)
to: 1945-06-01 · from: 1939-09-04 · role: Cryptanalyst, Hut 8 lead