Computing

“It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” – Alan Turing

Alan Turing conceived the idea of the Universal Machine in 1936 when he was 24 years old. His Wikipedia page introduces him as an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. The foundation he laid then inspired a small group of highly motivated and brilliant individuals led by John Von Neumann. With only five kilobytes of memory available, they developed unmatched meteorological predictions and tackled problems from the evolution of viruses to the evolution of stars.