Two alumni of Manchester who seem to be high-profile but are now
sadly dead are Alan Turing and Bernard Lovell. Turing.
mathematical genius, code-breaker extraordinaire, is widely
considered to be the father of computing science and artificial
intelligence. Designing the first model stored-program computer,
he worked on the innovative Manchester Computers project which
lead to the development of the first commercially available
general purpose computer the Ferranti Mark One. It is an
incredible legacy as arguably computers have been the most
significant technological advance in the modern age. Bernard
Lovell, sadly died a few weeks ago. A visionary physicist – his
top-secret work on magnetrons during the WW2 helped Allied
bombers spot submarine periscopes and Hitler blamed a major
naval setback on his inventions. During this work he spotted
other strange stuff – emitting radio frequency waves – cosmic
rays perhaps? so after the War he set up the Jodrell Bank Radio
Telescope in Cheshire to find out. The worlds