Mathematician Alan Turing, whose cracking of a Nazi code helped the Allies to wi...
MANCHESTER, England - 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.
His work at Bletchley Park, Britain’s wartime code-breaking center, was credited with shortening the war and saving many thousands of lives. Rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, who campaigned for Turing’s pardon and organized LGBT activists to vote for him in an early round of nominations for the banknote selection, said it was a breakthrough to have a known gay person appear on an English banknote for the first time.
In 2017, under new legislation known as “Turing’s Law”, Britain granted posthumous pardons to thousands of gay and bisexual men who were convicted of sexual offences under laws which have since been abolished
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