Alan Turing
His life story
Alan Turing
Alan Mathison Turing was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, pioneering computer scientist and a mathematical biologist.
About him
After the war he worked at the National Physical Laboratory where he designed the ACE, among the first designs for a stored-program computer. In 1948 he joined Max Newman's Computing Laboratory at Manchester University, where he assisted development of the Manchester computers and became interested in mathematical biology. Turing was prosecuted in 1952 for being gay. Being gay was still criminalized in the UK. He accepted treatment instead of going to prison. He died from cyanide poisoning. His death was suicide. On 10 September 2009 the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the British government for the way he was treated.