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Credit for what? The theoretical work for which Turing is most known - the concept of Turing machines and undecidability - was published publicly and before the war. He did not contribute to the design of a physical computer until after the war. Colossus, the code-breaking "computer", was not of his design (and the man who did design it is not at all famous for it).


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