Did Turing Win the War?
Mathematician Alan Turing, Whose Cracking of a Nazi Code Helped the Allies to Win World War Two but Who Committed Suicide After Being Convicted for...
Mathematician Alan Turing, whose cracking of a Nazi code helped the Allies to win World War Two but who committed suicide after being convicted for homosexuality, will appear on the Bank of England's new 50-pound banknote, the BoE said on Monday. ... Turing killed himself in 1954, aged 41, with cyanide.
Did Alan Turing help win the war?
Overlooked No More: Alan Turing, Condemned Code Breaker and Computer Visionary. His ideas led to early versions of modern computing and helped win World War II.
Did Alan Turing shorten the war?
Road Trip 2011: Code breakers led by Alan Turing were able to beat the Germans at their cipher games, and in the process shorten the war by as much as two years. At Bletchley Park, all the work took place in secret, where it stayed for decades.