??? Q http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/5021310 Alan Turing ................................................................................................................................... Alan Turing Image: Alan Turing British mathematician, code breaker and father of computer science. No, Alan Turing didn’t get a Nobel. We killed him instead. He should have got one for inventing the mathematical theory that led to modern computing (physics), the binary system of naughts and ones he dreamed up when barely a student. He could have got one (peace) for cracking the Enigma Code and helping to win World War Two. He could have got one (physiology) for working out the equations behind the growth and differential development of living bodies, a contribution most of us forget, but one that was equally brilliant. Instead of receiving one (or three) Nobels he was persecuted as a gay man and he killed himself to escape his misery. I think of him whenever I visit Kings College, Cambridge, where there is a Turing Room. UQ