EXHIBITS: The Turing Files
Science · 2002
Alan Turing was a math wizard who laid the groundwork for the computer and helped break the German Enigma code during World War II. At the Turing Digital Archive, you'll find a trove of mostly unpublished papers and personal photographs squirreled away by King's College, Cambridge, where Turing was an undergraduate and fellow. Along with math and computers, Turing's many other interests are on display, ranging from morphogenesis—how a developing organism takes shape—to long-distance running.