Codebreaker: Alan Turing's Life and Legacy

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Science Museum

Until Sun Jun 2

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'Four-rotor Enigma cypher machine © Science & Society Picture Library

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Time Out says

Fri Feb 17 2012

An exhibition to mark the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing (1912-1954). The show looks at the achievements of the man whose wartime codebreaking helped to shorten WWII by years and whose influence on computer science is still felt today. On display are artefacts including machines devised by Turing, such as the Pilot ACE computer (the fastest computer of its time), along with the electromechanical 'bombe' machines which were used to crack codes during the war. The show aims to give a rounded picture of the man known at Bletchley Park as 'the Prof', exploring the events that led to his untimely death in 1954 when, after being convicted for indecency and chemically castrated, he committed suicide by taking cyanide.

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Name:
Science Museum
Address:
Science Museum Exhibition Rd
London
SW7 2DD

Phone:
0870 870 4868
Website:
www.sciencemuseum.org.uk
Opening hours:
Daily 10am-7pm (last adm 6.15pm)
Transport:
Tube: South Kensington
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1. Science Museum
  - Exhibition Rd
    London
    SW7 2DD
  - 0870 870 4868
  - www.sciencemuseum.org.uk
  - 51.497296,-0.176478