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Descartes
- an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist
- father of theoretical computer science (1936) and artificial intelligence (1948-1950)
- pivotal role in the project Ultra
- convicted for "gross indecency" in 1952, put on hormonal treatment, develops gynaecomastia
- death by cyanide; half-bitten apple by the bedside
- Queen's "pardon" on 24.12.2013
