WHO WAS THE MAN THAT CRACKED THE ENIGMA CODE?
Cracking the Enigma machine played a big part in WWII, and it was no doubt thanks to a lot of clever people, but the man often cited with cracking Enigma, is none other than Alan Turing.
Turing, the man responsible for cracking the German’s Enigma machine – which was “a type of enciphering machine used by the German armed forces to send messages securely.” If you want to know the maths behind it all, and the scale of the challenge, click here.
But Turing was more than a clever mathematician. He was also an Olympic-level runner. “In 1948, his best marathon time was 2 hours 46 minutes 3 seconds — only 11 minutes slower than the Olympic winning time that year.”
He also made an early impact on biology with his love for daisies: Turing’s ground-breaking work in 1952 on morphogenesis – was a mathematical explanation of how things grow.
A man who changed the course of war contributed greatly to biology and was also an Olympic-level runner. A genius, and an inspiration. And a man, that was sadly taken far too soon from this world.
At the age of 41, Turing was found dead at his home, with the cause of death being suicide via cyanide poisoning. Turing was homosexual, which back then, would have been considered a crime.
A man no doubt, taken far too soon from this world. Rest in peace, Alan Turing.