ALAN TURING - and His Remarkable Legacy By Margaret Brecknell
One of the 20th-century’s most brilliant minds, Alan Turing, was born 110 years ago this month. Despite his outstanding contribution to the Allied forces’ eventual victory in World War II and his groundbreaking work in the field of computer science, his achievements were never properly recognised during his lifetime and tragically he died a broken man, aged just 41, at his Cheshire home in June 1954. 32
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