Alan Turing
Mathematician
Notable Achievement
Computer science pioneer and Enigma codebreaker
Biography
Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer. Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science.
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Birthday Date
Alan Turing was born on June 23