Who is Alan Turing?

Alan Turing was a genius who helped solve one of the biggest puzzles of the 20th century using his brain and imagination.

Imagine you're trying to figure out how a secret message was written, like when your friend hides a note in a bottle and sends it across the sea. Alan Turing was like a super detective who figured out how to read messages that had been hidden, even by some of the smartest people in the world!

During World War II, some bad guys used a special machine called an Enigma to write secret messages. It worked like a fancy puzzle box, you put in one letter, and it changed it into another letter.

Alan Turing and his team built a computer-like machine that could guess the Enigma's secrets and figure out what the hidden message said. This helped the Allies win battles and shorten the war.

Alan didn’t just solve puzzles, he invented the idea of computers! His brain was like a super computer, full of amazing ideas that still work today.