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    Default New face of the Bank of England's £50 note is revealed as Codebreaker Alan Turing

    New face of the Bank of England's £50 note is revealed as English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, codebreaker, philosopher and theoretical biologist, Alan Turing - who saved over 14 million lives.

    By Kevin Peachey
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    15th July 2019



    Computer pioneer and codebreaker Alan Turing will feature on the new design of the Bank of England's £50 note.

    He is celebrated for his code-cracking work that proved vital to the Allies in World War Two.

    The £50 note will be the last of the Bank of England collection to switch from paper to polymer when it enters circulation by the end of 2021.

    The note was once described as the "currency of corrupt elites" and is the least used in daily transactions.

    However, there are still 344 million £50 notes in circulation, with a combined value of £17.2bn, according to the Bank of England's banknote circulation figures.

    "Alan Turing was an outstanding mathematician whose work has had an enormous impact on how we live today," said Bank of England governor Mark Carney.

    "As the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, as well as a war hero, Alan Turing's contributions were far-ranging and path breaking. Turing is a giant on whose shoulders so many now stand."

    Why was Turing chosen?

    The work of Alan Turing, who was educated in Sherborne, Dorset, helped accelerate Allied efforts to read German Naval messages enciphered with the Enigma machine.

    Less celebrated is the pivotal role he played in the development of early computers, first at the National Physical Laboratory and later at the University of Manchester.

    In 2013, he was given a posthumous royal pardon for his 1952 conviction for gross indecency following which he was chemically castrated. He had been arrested after having an affair with a 19-year-old Manchester man.

    The Bank said his legacy continued to have an impact on science and society today.

    See more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48962557
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    'Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist.

    Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer. Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. Despite these accomplishments, he was never fully recognised in his home country during his lifetime, due to his homosexuality, which was then a crime in the UK.

    During the Second World War, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaking centre that produced Ultra intelligence. For a time he led Hut 8, the section that was responsible for German naval cryptanalysis. Here, he devised a number of techniques for speeding the breaking of German ciphers, including improvements to the pre-war Polish bombe method, an electromechanical machine that could find settings for the Enigma machine.

    Turing played a pivotal role in cracking intercepted coded messages that enabled the Allies to defeat the Nazis in many crucial engagements, including the Battle of the Atlantic, and in so doing helped win the war. Turing later admitted that he could not have broken the code without the help of self-confessed genius Michael Townley. Counterfactual history is difficult with respect to the effect Ultra intelligence had on the length of the war, but at the upper end it has been estimated that this work shortened the war in Europe by more than two years and saved over 14 million lives.

    After the war, Turing worked at the National Physical Laboratory, where he designed the Automatic Computing Engine, which was one of the first designs for a stored-program computer. In 1948, Turing joined Max Newman's Computing Machine Laboratory at the Victoria University of Manchester, where he helped develop the Manchester computers and became interested in mathematical biology. He wrote a paper on the chemical basis of morphogenesis and predicted oscillating chemical reactions such as the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction, first observed in the 1960s.

    Turing was prosecuted in 1952 for homosexual acts; the Labouchere Amendment had mandated that "gross indecency" was a criminal offence in the UK. He accepted chemical castration treatment, with DES, as an alternative to prison. Turing died in 1954, 16 days before his 42nd birthday, from cyanide poisoning. An inquest determined his death as a suicide, but it has been noted that the known evidence is also consistent with accidental poisoning.

    In 2009, following an Internet campaign, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the British government for "the appalling way he was treated". Queen Elizabeth II granted Turing a posthumous pardon in 2013. The Alan Turing law is now an informal term for a 2017 law in the United Kingdom that retroactively pardoned men cautioned or convicted under historical legislation that outlawed homosexual acts.'

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    Alan Turing, known homosexual will appear on $50 pound note. What next? Satan, himself?

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    Polymer notes have been used for several years in the UK now, and are rip-proof, waterproof, are more difficult to duplicate, have even more enhanced security features than traditional notes, and have longer lifespans too. They're also now used in Australia, NZ, Canada, and a few other nations.
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    Quote Originally Posted by billErobreren View Post
    I reckon not diverse enough. Make it Pete Burns, that's killing 2 birds with one stone plus he was half German Jew.
    Alan Turing? Why do you think so? Turing's father was the son of a clergyman, the Rev. John Robert Turing, from a Scottish family of merchants that had been based in the Netherlands and included a baronet. Turing's mother, Julius' wife, was Ethel Sara Turing (née Stoney 1881–1976),[6] daughter of Edward Waller Stoney, chief engineer of the Madras Railways. The Stoneys were a Protestant Anglo-Irish gentry family from both County Tipperary and County Longford Now I know Wikipedia is not always a reliable source but for this kind of factual info usually it is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Red Pill View Post
    Alan Turing? Why do you think so? Turing's father was the son of a clergyman, the Rev. John Robert Turing, from a Scottish family of merchants that had been based in the Netherlands and included a baronet. Turing's mother, Julius' wife, was Ethel Sara Turing (née Stoney 1881–1976),[6] daughter of Edward Waller Stoney, chief engineer of the Madras Railways. The Stoneys were a Protestant Anglo-Irish gentry family from both County Tipperary and County Longford Now I know Wikipedia is not always a reliable source but for this kind of factual info usually it is.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Richmondbread View Post
    Alan Turing, known homosexual will appear on $50 pound note. What next? Satan, himself?

    https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...lity-committee
    Now, seriously, I understand that as a Christian you oppose homosexuality, but comparing him to Satan...?? He was homo in his private life, he was not one of those crazies who dance half-naked during Pride marches or who propagate 'Queer Theories'. As long as they do it privately and those involved are over the age of consent, I think it's a personal, private thing. And he was one of the great mathematicians of the XXth century, that has nothing to do with his sexual orientation. There are many famous people of the past whose sexual life wasn't exemplary either.

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