Alan Turing

Alan Turing was an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine, which played a important role in the creation of the modern computer. During the Second World War, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, Britain's code breaking centre. For a time he was head of Hut 8, the part responsible for German naval cryptanalysis.

Towards the end of his life Turing became involved in mathematical biology. He wrote a paper on the chemical basis of morphogenesis, and he predicts oscillating chemical reactions such as the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction, which were first observed in the 1960s.

Alan Turing lived in "the Cottage", beside the carriage house and the Mansion.