Codebreaker Alan Turing to be face of new British banknote

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During World War II Alan worked at the secret Bletchley Park code-breaking centre, where he helped crack Nazi Germany's secret codes. 9News

Codebreaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing has been chosen as the face of Britain's new 50 pound note, the Bank of England has announced.

The Bank of England has released a concept of the new Fifty Pound note featuring Second World War code-breaker Alan Turing. After the war he was prosecuted for homosexuality, which was then illegal, and forcibly treated with female hormones. He died at age 41 in 1954 after eating an apple laced with cyanide.

 

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