Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rare papers of Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing fetch record sum at UK auction A collection of rare scientific papers written by ...

Alan Turing: The man who broke German codes in World War II but was later treated as a criminal (Alan Turing, Image credit - National Portrait Gallery, London ) War rarely turns on one person alone, ...

Alan Mathison Turing wasn’t just the gay mathematician and computer scientist who helped defeat the Nazis during World War II by cracking their “Enigma” code — he was also a close friend to gay fellow ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 56-page handwritten notebook that belonged to World War Two Nazi code breaker and computer pioneer Alan Turing, played by actor Benedict Cumberbatch in the film "The Imitation ...

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LONDON (Reuters) - Mathematician Alan Turing, who helped Britain win World War Two by cracking Nazi Germany's "unbreakable" Enigma code, was granted a rare royal pardon on Tuesday for a criminal ...

Alan Turing, considered to be one of the fathers of computer science whose code-breaking work helped the Allies win the Second World War, has been given a royal pardon for his homosexuality conviction ...