Alan Turing

     Alan Mathison Turing, the quiet child who viewed his French as code, was born in 1912 and soon exhibited innovative interests.

At the age of nine, his headmistress commented:

“I have had many clever boys and hard-working boys, but Alan is a genius.”

"Alan Turing." Bl.uk, British Library
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​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Constructing fountain
pens at eleven attested
to his remarkable precociousness.

Hodges, Andrew. Alan Turing - the Enigma. Princeton, New Jersey, Oxford : Princeton UP, 2014.

     1939: Turing arrived at Bletchley, soon becoming the Naval Enigma Team head. He commented rather humerously yet rudely on naval Enigma:

“because no one else was doing anything about it and I could have it to myself.”

Alan Turing, Enigma, and the Breaking of German Machine Ciphers in World War II. 31 Dec. 1997

Passport Sized Photograph of AMT. Turingarchive.org

Draco. Bletchley Park. 2012. bletchleypark.at, CCA, 2008

Alan Turing in 1934. 1934. Duncommutin

Batey, Mavis. "Spying Out the Future." Historic Gardens Review, no. 24, 2010, pp. 6–10. JSTOR

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