1 gen 1940 anni - Alan Turing wins World War II - Alan Turing leads a team that breaks the Enigma code using a very early electronic programmable computer.

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Well, kind of. Many people contributed to the Nazi defeat. But they weren't all soldiers; some were mathematicians. Turing, who went on to develop the beginning ideas of computer science and to prove the Halting Theorem, was the leader of a British team of mathematicians who made a breakthrough in decrypting messages encrypted with the German Enigma machine.

Cryptanalysis of the Enigma enabled western Allies in World War II to read substantial amounts of secret Morse-coded radio communications of the Axis powers. The western Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower considered the military intelligence from this and other decrypted Axis radio and teleprinter transmissions "decisive" to the Allied victory...

Alan Turing, a Cambridge University mathematician and logician, provided much of the original thinking and designed the device. Engineer Harold "Doc" Keen turned Turing's ideas into a working machine.

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