Alan Turing Will Be Featured on England’s New £50 Banknote

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This week, the Bank of Eng­land announced that it will fea­ture Alan Tur­ing on its £50 ban­knote, thus com­plet­ing the polit­i­cal reha­bil­i­ta­tion of the Eng­lish math­e­mati­cian, com­put­er sci­en­tist and code break­er. The new note will go into cir­cu­la­tion in 2021. Find more at The Guardian.

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Relat­ed Con­tent:

A Tur­ing Machine Hand­made Out of Wood

The Books on Young Alan Turing’s Read­ing List: From Lewis Car­roll to Mod­ern Chro­mat­ics

The LEGO Tur­ing Machine Gives a Quick Primer on How Your Com­put­er Works

The Enig­ma Machine: How Alan Tur­ing Helped Break the Unbreak­able Nazi Code

Hear the Christ­mas Car­ols Made by Alan Turing’s Com­put­er: Cut­ting-Edge Ver­sions of “Jin­gle Bells” and “Good King Wences­las” (1951)


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