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| Britain celebrates crypto analyst Alan Turing |
The Bank of England has announced a draft of a new £ 50 banknote for Great Britain that will include computer scientists and crypto workers (Alan Turing).
This is the latest toolkit for converting paper materials into polymeric materials. According to Turing's work, this toolkit is by far the safest set of tools.
Alan Turing was chosen for his pioneering work in mathematics and computer science, as well as for his role in decoding the Enigma machines used in Germany during WWII, having given a performance in the currency field in July 2019.
His work accelerated the Allied efforts to read German Navy letters encoded with Enigma machines, and his work was crucial in shortening WWII and saving lives.
At the National Physics Laboratory and the University of Manchester, Turing also played a pivotal role in the development of ancient computers.
"He is a pioneering mathematician, developmental biologist and pioneering computer," said Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England.
Polymer paper has been around since June 23 this year and contains many designs related to the life and legacy of Alan Turing.
These drafts include engineering drawings of British bombs, the decoders used in WWII, and a table and mathematical formulas taken from one of Turing's most famous documents from 1936 that includes numerical prediction.
Turing died in 1954 at the age of 41 while eating cyanide-coated apples. Historians still disagree on whether this was a suicide or an accidental poisoning.
The decision to appear in the £ 50 denomination will draw the public's attention to his life and work. The most influential example given by Alan Turing is that his work reduced the Four Years War and saved a life of $ 21 million.
If Turing were entered into the 50-pound denomination, he would recognize his unparalleled contribution to society and science.
Turing's nephew Dermot Turing said in a BBC interview: There is still a lot of work to be done to commemorate Turing's legacy.
"I think Alan Turing wants us to think: the underrepresentation of women in scientific subjects, the underrepresentation of minority and black children in STEM subjects, and why they are not being given a decent opportunity." he added.