DAVIES, Donald Watts (1924 - 2000) 1936 - 2004

Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

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Turing, Alan Mathison, 1912-1954

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Turing read mathematics at King's College, Cambridge. He was elected Fellow of King's in 1935. He began research in mathematical logic which led to his well-known work on computable numbers and the 'Turing Machine.' He spent two years at Princeton University, 1936-1938, working with A. Church, and the war years at Bletchley Park, at the Code and Cypher School, 1939-1945, and was awarded the OBE for his work on 'Enigma' and other codes. At the end of the war he declined a Cambridge University Lec...

National Physical Laboratory (Great Britain)

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Davies, Donald Watts.

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Born in Treorchy in the Rhodda Valley on 7 July 1924. In July 1925 his father died and Davies moved with his mother and twin sister to Portsmouth to live with his maternal grandmother and aunt. In 1941, on the completion of his school education at the Portsmouth Boys Southern Secondary School, he took up a 'Royal' Scholarship at Imperial College London where he studied physics. In 1943 he graduated with first-class honours and was directed to work at Birmingham University as a resea...