Who was Alan Turing: The man who broke German codes in World War II but was later treated as a criminal

War rarely turns on one person alone, yet certain names continue to surface when the history of World War II is revisited. Alan Turing is one of them. Born in London in 1912, he was trained as a ...
LGBTQ Nation

A historic gay codebreaker’s papers were almost shredded. Then something amazing happened.

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 ...
Artnet

The U.K. Bars Export of Alan Turing’s Wartime Notebooks

The British government is hoping a national institution will snap up two notebooks belonging to groundbreaking mathematician Alan Turing, so that the documents can remain in the U.K. A temporary ...

Alan Turing helped win World War II but was treated as a criminal

Alan Turing, a pivotal World War II codebreaker, developed the theoretical basis for modern computing and artificial intelligence. Despite his immense contributions, he was prosecuted for his ...
Lancashire Telegraph

Rawtenstall artist puts her stamp on the history of Alan Turing

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