Alan Turing at Bletchley Park, Bletchley, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire

The British government bought part of Bletchley Park in 1938.

'THE IMPORTANCE

OF 

BLETCHLEY PARK

Bletchley Park grew rapidly in size and importance

as the war progressed. What began with just a handful

of experts became a CODEBREAKING HUB on

an industrial scale, employing around 9,000 people

on site. TOTAL SECRECY remained essential.

Information supplied by Bletchley Park proved

crucial to Britain and its allies at several key points,

including the Battle of Britain, the Blitz, the Battle of

Cape Matapan, Crete, North Africa, the Battle

of the Atlantic and D-Day. It is estimated that the

Codebreakers' work helped SHORTEN THE WAR

by at least two years, saving many lives on both sides.'

'THE TURING BOMBE REBUILD PROJECT'. Alan Turing (1912–1954) worked at Bletchley Park.

Turing was based in Hut 8, in which there is a reconstruction of his office.

'This statue was donated by

The Sidney E. Frank Foundation

and unveiled by

Abel Hadden

on 19th June 2007'

The slate statue of a man with a great brain but who was driven to suicide by the government's intolerance of his homosexuality. His official pardon didn't come until 2009.

University of Manchester plaques #2: Alan Turing

'THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

commemorates

ALAN MATHISON TURING

1912–1954

A Creator of Computer Science,

Code breaker and Mathematician

Reader in Mathematics

1948–1954'

This plaque is on Coupland I Building. My other Turing posts are linked below:

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Alan Turing, Mathematician (1912-54), Wilmslow.
Alan Turing, Sackville Park, Manchester

Sustrans' Portrait Bench, Paddington

Sustrans' Portrait Bench is an ongoing project, the creation of a series of nationwide sculptures that when completed will total 230 figures. The three figures here are in Paddington about a half mile from the station and in a grassy area at the side of St Mary's church. Below I quote from a little circular plaque bolted to the side of a bench:

 

'Alan Turing OBE, FRS 1912–1954

Father of computer science,

WWII code-breaker who led cryptanalysis

of the Enigma Machine'

 

'Mary Seacole 1805–1881

Nursed wounded soldiers

on the battlefield during the Crimean War'

'Michael Bond OBE

Author and creator of the beloved

children's character

Paddington Bear'

 

Alan Turing, Sackville Park, Manchester

Alan Turing, Sackville Park, near the Gay Village, Manchester. I have to be careful about posts on subjects I know nothing about, as there's always someone picking me up on errors. OK, I know nothing of Mathematics, and I've been corrected before about Alan Turing, as in my previous post here.

In his hand is an apple: he killed himself with a cyanide-laced one aged 41, after being forced to undergo 'treatment' for his homosexuality.

'Alan Mathison Turing

1912-1954

Father of Computer Science

Mathematician, Logician

Wartime Codebreaker

Victim of Prejudice'

________________________

'Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth

but supreme beauty, a beauty cold and austere

like that of sculpture' - Bertrand Russell

'THE BEACON OF HOPE

The "BEACON OF HOPE" and "TREE OF LIFE" is [sic] dedicated to all those

who have lost their lives to HIV / AIDS and those living with and affected

by the virus. The Beacon is a permanent awareness of the

threat of HIV / AIDS to every individual person.

______________________________

'This project has been made possible thanks to the generous

contributions from:-

_______________________________

'Black HIV & AIDS forum; Body Positive North West; Clone Zone; Diana,

Princess of Wales Memorial Fund; George House Trust; Lesbian & Gay

Foundation;  Lifeline Project; Manchester City Council; Manchester Health

Authority; Manchester Lesbian & Gay Mardi Gras; Massow Financial

Consultants; Sackville Park Project; The Trafford Centre; The Village

Project; the Village enterprises who have held fundraising events for this

project, and not least all the customers who have supported this project.

'The Beacon of Hope was designed by

Warren Chapman and Jesse Byrne-Daniel.'

'THE TREE OF LIFE

This TREE was planted by the Lord Mayor and

the Lady Mayoress on behalf of the

Village charity, in memory of those lost to

HIV / AIDS

                                            World AIDS day 1st December 1993

________________________________________

'This area surrounding the TREE was improved

in the summer of 2000 as part of the

BEACON OF HOPE project.'

Alan Turing, Mathematician (1912-54), Wilmslow, Cheshire

(Of course, it's dangerous talking about mathematics when you're not a mathematician, so please read the comments below too. And thanks for the corrections!)

Alan Turing was an English mathematician and computer scientist perhaps best known for cracking the Enigma code, and for his work on the Automatic Computing Engine, or ACE, the first programable computer in the world.

Turing was prosecuted for 'gross indecency' (homosexuality) in 1952, and was forced to receive hormone treatment or be imprisoned. In 1954, he died in bed at his home in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England, after eating a cyanide-laced apple. The Blue plaque on the wall of his semi-detached house (on the left of the photo) reads 'Alan Turing | 1912-54 | Founder of computer science and cryptographer, whose work was key to breaking the wartime Enigma codes, lived and died here.'

There is an Alan Turing Way in Manchester, and statue of him, sculpted by Glyn Hughes, is in Sackville Park, Manchester, England. In his hand he holds an apple.