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WWII codebreaker Alan Turing honored on new UK bank note
AP ^ | 25 Mar 2021 | Pan Pylas

Posted on 03/25/2021 7:43:31 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

The design of the bank note was unveiled before it is set to be formally issued to the public on June 23, Turing’s birthday. The 50-pound note is the most valuable denomination in circulation but is little used during everyday transactions, especially during the coronavirus pandemic as digital exchanges increasingly replaced the use of cash.

The new note, which is laden with high-level security features, completes the bank’s rejig of its stable of paper currencies over the past few years. Turing’s image joins that of Winston Churchill on the five-pound note, novelist Jane Austen on the 10-pound note and artist J. M. W. Turner on the 20-pound note. All the notes are made from polymer rather than paper, which means they should last longer and remain in better condition through their use.

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My wife worked with a former WWII Washington D.C.codebreaker.

She was a sharp old bird that worked to a very ripe old age. Unfortunately, she always said, they had taken an oath to NEVER discuss their work, and she never said anything.

Think what you will, what they did to Turing was simply wrong. Even if he had been a nobody.

1 posted on 03/25/2021 7:43:31 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

It is actually doubtful that Turing committed suicide via a cyanide apple.

The apple was never tested for cyanide.

His housekeeper said he ate an apple every night before going to bed and always left the core on the dresser.

Sounds like the kind of investigation/incrimination our FBI/KGB would perform.


2 posted on 03/25/2021 7:48:22 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Anti-racism looks suspiciously like racism.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

The West and the free world as a whole owes this man. Say what you will about his sexual identity but without his skills we could have lived in a much different world.


3 posted on 03/25/2021 7:48:56 AM PDT by the_individual2014
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To: DUMBGRUNT

The West and the free world as a whole owes this man. Say what you will about his sexual identity but without his skills we could have lived in a much different world.


4 posted on 03/25/2021 7:48:57 AM PDT by the_individual2014
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To: DUMBGRUNT

The Imitation Game was an excellent movie.

The interview scene between Charles Dance (Adm Dennison) and Benedict Cumberbatch (Turing) was classic English irony and humor.


5 posted on 03/25/2021 7:49:27 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: DUMBGRUNT

We visited Bletchley Park a few years ago- very interesting


6 posted on 03/25/2021 7:51:42 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: DUMBGRUNT

There’s a cryptological museum at Fort Meade in Maryland. It’s actually more interesting than I expected it to be.

One display was about three linguists. They sounded like absolute linguistic idiot savants. I’m guess they found these guys in some institution and not through a newspaper ad.

One of them, in the late 1950’s was reading about some action in Vietnam and thought that the US might be getting involved there. So he went home and taught himself Vietnamese one weekend so he could translate intercepts.


7 posted on 03/25/2021 7:52:59 AM PDT by cyclotic (Live your life in such a way that they hate you as much as they hated Rush Limbaugh)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

This was the man who really defeated Rommel and prevented the Germans from seizing the Suez canal.If that had happened Turkey would have joined the Axis and eventually Germany and Japan would have linked up in Northern India.


8 posted on 03/25/2021 7:55:36 AM PDT by allendale
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To: Dr. Ursus

—”We visited Bletchley Park a few years ago-”

I’m so jealous...


9 posted on 03/25/2021 7:55:44 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

My uncle passed away a couple years ago at age 99. He was at the university studying mechanical engineering when he joined the army in WW II and was sent to Oak Ridge to run a shift of local boys enriching uranium. He went on to machining plutonium bomb cores at Los Alamos. When he was about 95 or so, we were discussing his work during and after the war and I asked him about the machining tolerances. He paused for a couple seconds and I thought he was trying to remember something from so long ago. Then he said “I can’t tell you that. It’s classified.”


10 posted on 03/25/2021 7:58:23 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (The Weak Never Started, The Cowards fail along the way, Only the Strong Survive)
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11 posted on 03/25/2021 8:10:57 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true !)
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To: the_individual2014

Any WW2 history written before the story of the Ultra Decrypts was revealed is simply incomplete.


12 posted on 03/25/2021 8:12:13 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: knarf

Shouldn’t have been a 3-dollar bill?


13 posted on 03/25/2021 8:12:27 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: cyclotic

Were they cunning linguists?...............


14 posted on 03/25/2021 8:13:33 AM PDT by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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To all

The Poles did the original work, which includes clandestinely stealing an early Engima. UK likes to convienently forget that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cipher_Bureau_(Poland)


15 posted on 03/25/2021 8:19:00 AM PDT by Reily
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UK conveniently forgot a lot of the contributions of the Poles.


16 posted on 03/25/2021 8:20:22 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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The West and the free world as a whole owes this man. Say what you will about his sexual identity but without his skills we could have lived in a much different world.

Agreed. A great mind and one of the founders of modern computer science.
17 posted on 03/25/2021 8:20:55 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

...and I will need to get one of the Turing bank notes as a souvenir.


18 posted on 03/25/2021 8:21:57 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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—”The West and the free world as a whole owes this man.”

Not wanting to detract from the great man, but add to the chain, the lesser-knowns, and the unknowns.

The physical bravery of many and those who ‘gave their last’, to crack the Enigma machine.

!!!CLIMB INTO A DARK SINKING ENEMY SUBMARINE!!!!

“Brown’s testimony records what happened on his return to the conning tower: “I shouted, ‘You better come up!’ twice, and they had just started up when the submarine started to sink very quickly.” U559 sank beneath the waves.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/20/enigma-code-u-boat-u559-hms-petard-sebag-montefiori

Long ago, I enjoyed reading of their exploits.


19 posted on 03/25/2021 8:24:57 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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—” They sounded like absolute linguistic idiot savants.”

I served with a guy that was a Post Doc in Egyptology, worked in the pyramids... fluent in over FIFTEEN LANGUAGES.
He thought OCS would be better than being a draftee???

He said it was easy for him?
Other than that an everyday normal guy.


20 posted on 03/25/2021 8:40:50 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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