New British banknote to feature WWII codebreaker persecuted for sexuality

Published July 15, 2019 4:36pm ET



Alan Turing, a pioneering World War II-era codebreaker whose efforts helped win the war, will be commemorated on Britain’s highest-value banknote.

It was announced Monday that Turing would be featured on the 50 pound British banknote. Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, described him in a statement as “a giant on whose shoulders so many now stand.”

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