The Incredible Story Of Alan Turing, Who Helped Beat The Nazis But Was Then Persecuted For His Sexuality
www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012.jpgWorld War II had many heroes whose names everyone knows: Winston Churchill, Dwight Eisenhower, and Douglas MacArthur are only a few. But those who worked behind the scenes are less known, often because they worked with "classified" information.
One such person is Alan Turing, the man who helped give the Allies their biggest tactical advantage against the Axis forces and is the father of much of modern computing, yet was censured for his sexual orientation after the war and died an ignominious death.
But not everyone is content to let him rest in infamy. Last month, a petition was circulated in the UK to honor Turing by putting his face on the new £10 notes.
So this being the centenary of his birth, we decided to dig into his contributions to the war and science.