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Alan Turing To Become The Face Of £50 • Instinct Magazine
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Great Britain has decided to make Alan Turing the face of their new £50 note.
The Bank of England Governor Mark Carney announced earlier today that Turing would appear on the new polymer note by the end of 2021.
Carney praised Turing as an “outstanding mathematician” and “a giant on whose shoulders so many now stand.”
“As the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, as well as war hero, Alan Turing’s contributions were far ranging and path breaking,”...
