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Jun 22, 2012 · By Roland Pease. BBC Radio Science Unit. Alan Turing, the British mathematical genius and codebreaker born 100 years ago on 23 June, may not have committed suicide, as is widely believed....
Jun 1, 2022 · By Felix Behr / Updated: June 1, 2022 1:53 pm EST. On June 8, 1954, the housekeeper of Alan Turing discovered a shock — Turing's body. As the Turing Centre describes, the official verdict was that Turing had died from self-administered suicide cyanide poisoning, with a half-eaten apple sitting on his bedside table presumably being the vehicle ...
Dec 14, 2014 · The verdict about Alan Turing’s suicide had been pronounced some 60 years ago but author Roger Bristow is set to change everything about the brilliant mathematician’s death. According to him, WWII codebreaker Alan Turing did not kill himself but was, instead, killed .
Jun 5, 2019 · Some of those who studied his personality or knew him, most notably his mother, Ethel Turing, challenged the official verdict of suicide, arguing that he had poisoned himself accidentally.
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...
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".
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.
