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On the 23rd of June 1912 in Maida Vale, London, England, was born one Alan Mathison Turing. He was raised in southern England and graduated with a maths PhD at Princeton. During WW2, he worked for Britan's code breaking centre, the Government Code and Cypher School in Bletchley Park.

Alan led hut 8, which dealt with cryptanalysis of Germany's navy. He came up with techniques for cracking the German's cypher codes, and made improvements to pre war Polish bomba method.

And Turing's hard work helped save the lives of approximately 14 million people and shortened the war by 2-4 years. And got awarded an OBE in 1946.

This is the part of the story where it looks good, but something comes around to wreck everything. Alan was gay, which isn't unfortunate in itself by any means. But in 1952 he was prosecuted for this, and then got chemically castrated and unfortunately died 2 years later on June 2nd, 1954; 41 years old.

This'd make a sad story, if that was the end. But as you guessed, it isn't.

ACM A. M. Turing Award is an award for major or lasting contributions to computer science.

In 2013, he received a royal posthumosly pardon for his "crime" and on the 23rd of June 2021 the UK put Alan Turing on the £50 note.

On the film itself, I'm not entirely into biopics myself, but I thought this was alright.