Would Turing Have Won the Turing Award?

In 2017, we celebrated 50 years of the ACM A.M. Turing Award, known simply as the Turing Award. Justifiably, the Turing Award is often accompanied by the tagline "The Nobel Prize in Computing." How did this prestigious award come to be? The early history of the Turing Award is somewhat murky. The minutes of meetings of ACM Council from the mid-1960s shed some, but not complete light on this history.