WWII codebreaker Alan Turing to be the face of Britain's new 50-pound note

Mathematician Alan Turing, whose cracking of a Nazi code helped the Allies to win World War II, will be the face of Britain's new 50-pound note.His homosexuality was persecuted throughout his life, and he once was castratedTuring, who was stripped of his job and chemically castrated for having sex with a man, is also the first known-homosexual person to feature on a Bank of England note.

"As the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, as well as war hero, Alan Turing's contributions were far-ranging and path-breaking," the bank's governor Mark Carney said.Turing's electro-mechanical machine, a forerunner of modern computers , broke the Enigma code used by Nazi Germany and helped give the Allies an advantage in the naval struggle for control of the Atlantic.

His work at Bletchley Park, Britain's wartime code-breaking centre, was credited with shortening the war and saving many thousands of lives.Turing was stripped of his job and chemically castrated after being convicted of gross indecency in 1952 for having sex with a man.He was granted a

The way the Poms are going with Brexit their may not be a currency in a few years.

Rejewski, Rozycki and Zygalski enigma

A very talented English mathematician. Good to see.

Could someone check up on Lyle Shelton's welfare in the morning when he hears the news.... 😉

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