
United Kingdom
1912 – 1954
Alan Turing
A shy British mathematician who cracked secret codes and dreamed up computers.
The Story
Alan loved numbers and puzzles from the time he was a little boy.
When a big war came, secret messages were flying everywhere in code.
Alan built a clever machine to crack the code — and helped the war end sooner.
Then he asked a huge question: could a machine ever think?
His ideas grew into the computers and phones we all use today.
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