Persons of Note - Alan Turing

• 'Father of modern computing', developing plans, designs, papers and machines that set precedence for computing and contributed significantly to the field of Artificial Intelligence.
• Got a degree in Maths at Cambridge, but had strong scientific interests from being very young, excelling in these subjects.
• Fascinated in humans ability to follow a definite method to perform a given task, he researched and invented the idea of a 'universal machine', which could decode and perform any set of instructions. After developing ideas about secret ciphers, this lead to his work with the British Government's code breaking department, with whom he played a crucial role in the victory over Nazi Germany. He created the 'Bombe', capable of breaking enigma codes on an industrial scale.
• Other machines followed such as Delilah, which could encrypt and decrypt spoken telephone conversations, although never actually put into proper use. 
• Also produced design for the ACE, Automated Computing Engine, the first digital computer in that it could store programs on it's memory, but was unable to work on actually producing it due to a fallout.
• Was fascinated with machines abilities to rival the human mind, creating the imitation game which compared human and machines outputs, contributing to AI field. 
• Went on to explore more about biological patterns in nature, developing equations for chemical interactions that played into this concept of natural patterns.
• Died of suspected suicide by cyanide after continued police surveillance once he was convicted for indecency because he was gay. He opted for hormonal treatment over prison time and reacted to the arrest defiantly.