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Jun 22, 2012 · What is well known and accepted is that Alan Turing died of cyanide poisoning. His housekeeper famously found the 41-year-old mathematician dead in his bed, with a half-eaten apple on his...
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Turing died on 7 June 1954, aged 41, from cyanide poisoning. An inquest determined his death as suicide, but the evidence is also consistent with accidental poisoning. [15] . Following a campaign in 2009, British prime minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology for "the appalling way [Turing] was treated".
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...
Alan Turing's Ambiguous Suicide. On June 7, 1954 Turing probably committed suicide in Wilmslow, a town in Cheshire, England, by eating an apple laced with cyanide. He was only 42 years old.
Jun 23, 2021 · 23 June 2021. Bank of England. The new design has a series of security features. By Kevin Peachey. Personal finance correspondent, BBC News. The Bank of England's newly-designed £50 note...
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Jun 5, 2019 · While a coroner deemed the death a suicide, the telltale apple at Turing’s side was never forensically examined.
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.
