Alan Turing as a young boy. (Photo by Getty Images)
23 June 1912 Born Alan Mathison Turing in Maida Vale, London, the second son of Julius and Sara Turing
October 1931 Turing takes up a mathematics scholarship at King’s College Cambridge, earning a first-class degree. In 1935 he is elected to a junior research fellowship
January 1937 A paper by Turing is published that is later recognised as laying the foundation of computer science
June 1938 At the age of 25, Turing receives his PhD from Princeton for his dissertation Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals
4 September 1939 Turing arrives at Bletchley Park to begin his wartime work on code and cipher systems. He goes on to lead the team in Hut 8 (left)
Engineering places: Bletchley Park
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What It Was Really Like Being A World War II Codebreaker Public Domain
By Natasha Lavender/Feb. 13, 2021 10:17 pm EDT
The image of a codebreaker trying to unscramble a seemingly meaningless string of numbers and letters in the dim light of a bunker comes from World War II. But during and after the war, those people we now understand as some of the most important behind-the-scenes heroes of the war effort were as secret as the ciphers they were trying to decrypt. It s only recently that we ve started to uncover what it was really like being a World War II codebreaker.
How Codebreakers Helped Defeat Nazi Germany
Allied intelligence personnel, including Americans, at secret locations in Britain helped win the war against Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.
Here s What You Need to Know: Alan Turing led Bletchley Park’s attack on the German code machine, the Enigma.
Great Britain’s military intelligence leaders learned from their experience in World War I that the kinds of minds capable of breaking codes are a rare commodity and are often not likely to blossom in a military atmosphere. As World War II approached, the Government Code and Cipher School (GC&CS), a name deliberately underplaying the unit’s importance, was moved out of bomb-vulnerable London.