Alan Mathison Turing

Birthdate Who was Alan Turing?

- 23rd June, 1912,

Alan Turing was a mathematician,
Maida Vale in London. cryptographer, and a pioneer of
computer science.
Biography His work forms the basis of todays
programmable computers.
He created the Bombe machine that
In 1926 helps stop WW II.
He went on to Sherborne Turing is widely considered to be the
School. father of theoretical computer science
He met Christopher Morcom, and artificial intelligence.
his first love and inspirations

In 1930
Christopher Morcom
passed away
Turing coped with his grief
by working harder on the
topics of Science and
Mathematics that
he had shared with
Morcom.
In 1936
The Turing machine, a theoretical
computing device, was invented.
Turing studied mathematics and
cryptology at the Institute for
Advanced Study in Princeton, New
Jersey.
 Alan Mathison Turing

During WORLD WAR II

Turing was in charge of Hut 8, a section at Bletchley Park (the
British World War II codebreaking station) tasked with solving
encoded German naval messages.

In 1939

He also designed the Bombe Machine in 1939, which is the

machine that helps decipher The Enigma machine that the
German used to send encrypted secret messages.

Homosexuality and conviction

He was convicted of Gross Indecency after the police learned of
his sexual relationship with a young Manchester man. ( In the
1950s, Homosexuality was illegal.)
Rather than go to prison, he accepted, for the period of a year,
injections of estrogen intended to neutralise his sexuality. The
treatment left him chemically castrated.

Death
7th of June, 1954
He committed suicide, the cause of death was
cyanide poisoning.
In 2013, 59 years after his death, he was given
a posthumous royal pardon.