Alan Turing

"Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine."

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Source: An Oscars Speech That Reaches Out to the Rejected and the Misunderstood by Colette Douglas Home, www.heraldscotland.com. February 24, 2015.

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Alan Turing

Alan Turing

Mathematician, Logician, Cryptanalyst

Alan Turing was a mathematician and computer scientist known for his pivotal role in developing theoretical computer science and breaking the Enigma code during WWII.

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