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Friday, February 17, 2012
“A Stamp for Alan Turing" read By" Chris Cox
The work of London-born Alan Turing will be celebrated on a U.K. commemorative stamp released in February 2012. His legacy as a master code breaker will be featured as part of a series of ten “Britons of Distinction.”
Turing worked at the British Code and Cypher School and invented the machine that deciphered the Nazi War Code, directly contributing to the victory over Germany during World War II. In 1952, he was prosecuted for homosexuality and sentenced to chemical castration. He committed suicide two years later.
Surprisingly, the stamp will not include Alan Turing’s likeness. Instead, it will picture the electromechanical machine he invented that was used to break the code, and the words, “Alan Turing, 1912 – 1954, Mathematician and WWII Code Breaker.”
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February 17th, 2012
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