Alan Turing is best known as the cryptographer whose invention helped to crack the Enigma code during the Second World War. Father of Computer Science, Mathematician, Logician, Wartime Codebreaker Victim of Prejudice
He is considered the father of computer science, working in Manchester on one of the world’s earliest computers, the Manchester Mark I.
Sadly, laws regarding homosexual behaviour drove Turing to suicide in 1954. This life-size bronze figure of Turing
is seated on a bronze bench and holding an apple with which, laced with cyanide, he took his own life.
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