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Alan Turing
Alan Turing was an English mathematician and computer scientist. His 1936 paper on computable numbers laid the theoretical foundations of computing, and during the Second World War he worked at Bletchley Park, where he led work on breaking German naval Enigma ciphers. Prosecuted for homosexuality in 1952, he died in 1954 and received a posthumous royal pardon in 2013.
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