Alan Turing is Now Deservedly on the United Kingdom's £50 Banknote

Delighted to hear the Bank of England announce that mathematician, war hero and computer science pioneer Alan Turing will be pictured on a new £50 banknote. Decades after his untimely death, Alan Turing continues to be an inspiring visionary. He was an outstanding mathematician and a pioneer of computer science and artificial intelligence. In 1936, at age 24, he published "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem," a scholarly paper that is widely recognized as foundational to the field of computer science. But he is best known as a World War II hero who devised code-breaking machines that ultimately helped the Allies defeat the Axis Powers.