Alan Turing
The mathematician...
Fact File
Date of birth:23rd of June 1912
Place of birth: London
University: Cambridge
Job: Mathematician
What did he do?
Alan Turing was an English mathematician, wartime code-breaker and the creator of computer science. He worked as a code breaker in world war 2 for Britain, whilst he was working he thought 'it would be amazing if there was a machine which could do the code breaking for us.' His theory was dismissed by his collegues