Alan Turing – mathematician, computer scientist (1912-1954)
Alan Turing is remembered for breaking the German naval Enigma Code during World War II, which helped end the war earlier. He is also considered to be the forefather of modern computer science. He faced profound discrimination due to his homosexuality and his life ended tragically. Alan Turing represents an important LGBT historical figure in science whom we honour in our portraiture. The University of Oxford is one of the five founding universities of the Alan Turing Institute, the national institute for data science, located at the Oxford Internet Institute in St Giles, Oxford.
About Alan Turing:
- Hodges, Andrew. Alan Turing: The Enigma. https://www.turing.org.uk/
- Hodges, Andrew. Alan Turing: The Enigma. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. Available on SOLO http://tinyurl.com/bde9ub2p
- Racster, Christopher. Decoding Alan Turing. San Francisco, California, USA: Kanopy Streaming, 2015. Film. Available on SOLO. http://tinyurl.com/53advxue
Further resources:
- Turing, Dermot. Alan Turing Decoded: The Man They Called Prof. Cheltenham: The History Press, 2021. Available on SOLO http://tinyurl.com/ms7r7ccz
- Cooper, S. B. (S. Barry), and J. van (Jan) Leeuwen. Alan Turing: His Work and Impact. Amsterdam; Elsevier, 2013. Available on SOLO http://tinyurl.com/52736vts
- Jacobson, R. (2014, November 28) 8 things you didn’t know about Alan Turing. Science https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/8-things-didnt-know-alan-turing
- How Alan Turing Cracked The Enigma Code. Imperial War Museums. https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-alan-turing-cracked-the-enigma-code
Find the full list of the pioneering members of the scientific community featured in our portraiture on our previous blog post.