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Alan Turing

Mathematician · British · 20th c.

British mathematician and computer scientist. He cracked the Enigma cipher during World War II, making a decisive contribution to the Nazi defeat. With the Turing Machine he laid the theoretical foundations of modern computing and defined the field of "artificial intelligence." Prosecuted for his homosexuality and subjected to chemical castration, he died in 1954 — a tragic genius whose name now graces the Turing Award.