Alan Turing was instrumental in breaking Nazi Germany’s Enigma code, an achievement that shortened World War II and saved millions of lives. His work remained classified for decades, leaving him ...

Alan Turing’s work breaking the German Enigma code was a watershed moment in the history of the UK security services (Picture: Getty Images) Alan Turing’s legacy has been thrown into sharp focus as ...

The Imitation Game has recently been showing in cinemas. The main character is Alan Turing (1912 to 1954), a genius mathematician who created the mathematical model for computers around 1940 and made ...

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Britain's greatest codebreaker (ch4) mark lawson talks to alice cooper (bbc4) BRITAIN'S Greatest Codebreaker was an inadequate title for an inadequate programme that demonstrated why it's rarely a ...

BLETCHLEY Park was the central site for Britain’s codebreakers during the Second World War, and is now earmarked for a new generation of code crackers. It famously housed Alan Turing and the team he ...

THE IMITATION GAME (12A) In December 2013, The Queen granted a posthumous royal pardon to Alan Turing. The London-born mathematician had been prosecuted for homosexuality in 1952 - a criminal act at ...

Turing, a British mathematical genius, led a team of cryptographers who cracked the wartime Enigma code, which the Germans had considered unbreakable. Cassandra Hatton, senior specialist in Bonhams' ...

Dr Turing, who was pivotal in breaking the Enigma code, arguably shortening the Second World War by at least two years, was chemically castrated following his conviction in 1952. His conviction for ...