This is Alan Turing, one of the most brilliant men of the last century and the father of computer science. He was greatly influential in the fields of logic and mathematics, and he worked on codebreaking for the British government during World War II, devising several techniques for breaking German codes.
He was born on June 23, 1912, 97 years ago. On June 7, 1954, he killed himself by ingesting cyanide — an act he was driven to do after being arrested, prosecuted, and forced to take experimental and dangerous hormone treatments by the British government. His crime? Homosexual acts were illegal under British law at the time.
