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Jun 22, 2012 · In his authoritative biography, Andrew Hodges suggests that the experiment was a ruse to disguise suicide, a scenario Turing had apparently mentioned to a friend in the past.
Dec 16, 2014 · Moore also explains why the film controversially omitted Turing’s eventual suicide via cyanide-laced apple, an act only discussed in a closing-credits title card. The scene that I must have...
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Jun 22, 2012 · Alan Turing, the British mathematical genius and codebreaker, may not have committed suicide, as is widely believed, claims an academic.
Jun 5, 2019 · While a coroner deemed the death a suicide, the telltale apple at Turing’s side was never forensically examined.
Jun 22, 2012 · In 1954, Turing committed suicide using an apple dipped in cyanide. His death is linked to his treatment by the authorities after his homosexuality was discovered. The discovery placed ...
Jan 29, 2006 · Code-Breaker. By Jim Holt. January 29, 2006. On June 8, 1954, Alan Turing, a forty-one-year-old research scientist at Manchester University, was found dead by his housekeeper. Before getting...
What Happened on June 7th. Alan Turing, a computer science pioneer and one of the secret code breakers working at Britain’s Bletchley Park during the World War II, killed himself by eating an apple containing cyanide. Turing conceived of the idea to create a machine that would turn thought processes into binary numbers.
