Sheril KirshenbaumDec 28, 2022

Alan Turing was a mathematician & cryptographer who was a leading code-breaker in the team that decrypted Nazi Germany’s Enigma machine during WWII. He inspired modern computing & what became AI.

Instead of being hailed as a genius & hero, Turing was convicted as a homosexual & forced to endure chemical castration. He died by suicide at 41 in 1954.

The British government didn’t apologize until 2009 & Queen Elizabeth II finally pardoned him in 2013. #history #science #HistoryRemix

Show threadAlicePaulDec 29, 2022

@Sheril

Apology and pardoned still doesn’t equate to honoring and celebrating Turing’s gift that enabled freedom for most of the entire damn world. How hard is this?

Show threadchris

@GoAskAlice

Well, he *is* the face of the new £50 note.

The others on the shortlist were Mary Anning, Paul Dirac, Rosalind Franklin, William Herschel and Caroline Herschel, Dorothy Hodgkin, Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, Stephen Hawking, James Clerk Maxwell, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Sanger.

Dec 29, 2022 at 9:49amWeb