ALAN TURING, United Kingdom (1912-1954)

Renowned logician, mathematician, computer scientist. A leading code breaker for the allied forces during WWII and a founding father of artificial intelligence. Convicted of “gross indecency” for homosexual acts in 1952 and sentenced to “hormone therapy.” Subsequently died of cyanide poisoning–perhaps by his own hand, perhaps not.

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