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Alan Turing

1912 - 1954

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Alan Mathison Turing (; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer. Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science. Born in London, Turing was raised in southern England. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alan Turing is the most popular computer scientist, the 46th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 24th in 2019) and the most popular British Computer Scientist.

Alan Turing was a British mathematician and computer scientist who is most famous for his work on breaking the German Enigma code during World War II.

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Among computer scientists, Alan Turing ranks 1 out of 245. After him are Richard Stallman, Grace Hopper, Satoshi Nakamoto, Tim Berners-Lee, John McCarthy, Barbara Liskov, Dennis Ritchie, Frances E. Allen, Donald Knuth, Edsger W. Dijkstra, and Geoffrey Hinton.

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Among people born in 1912, Alan Turing ranks 3. Before him are Pope John Paul I, and Kim Il-sung. After him are Eva Braun, Erich Honecker, Otto von Habsburg, Jackson Pollock, Wernher von Braun, Milton Friedman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, and John Cage. Among people deceased in 1954, Alan Turing ranks 3. Before him are Frida Kahlo, and Henri Matisse. After him are Enrico Fermi, Heinz Guderian, Robert Capa, Otto Diels, Princess Märtha of Sweden, Colette, Gideon Sundback, André Derain, and Getúlio Vargas.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alan Turing ranks 46 out of 8,785. Before him are H. G. Wells (1866), Thomas Hobbes (1588), Edmond Halley (1656), Alexander Graham Bell (1847), Mary I of England (1516), and Charles Dickens (1812). After him are Alexander Fleming (1881), Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (1947), Thomas Hardy (1840), Bernard Montgomery (1887), James Cook (1728), and Mary, Queen of Scots (1542).

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Among computer scientists born in United Kingdom, Alan Turing ranks 1. After him are Tim Berners-Lee (1955), Geoffrey Hinton (1947), Edgar F. Codd (1923), Maurice Wilkes (1913), Paul Graham (1964), James H. Wilkinson (1919), Martin Fowler (1963), Robin Milner (1934), Alan Cox (1968), Stephen Wolfram (1959), and Karen Spärck Jones (1935).

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