The new £50 note featuring Alan Turing has entered circulation (Joe Giddens/PA)
The Alan Turing £50 banknote has started to enter circulation, coinciding with the Bletchley Park codebreaker’s birthday.
The new polymer Bank of England note will become available in bank branches and at ATMs in the coming days and weeks.
Celebrating Mr Turing’s life, the Bank of England was also flying the Progress Pride flag above its building in London’s Threadneedle Street on Wednesday.
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey with the new £50 note, featuring Alan Turing, at Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes (Joe Giddens/PA)
Often considered to be the father of computer science, Mr Turing played a pivotal role in breaking the Enigma code and his legacy has had a lasting impact on the way we live today.
Alan Turing £50 banknote enters circulation
The new £50 note featuring Alan Turing has entered circulation (Joe Giddens/PA)
The Alan Turing £50 banknote has started to enter circulation, coinciding with the Bletchley Park codebreaker’s birthday.
The new polymer Bank of England note will become available in bank branches and at ATMs in the coming days and weeks.
Celebrating Mr Turing’s life, the Bank of England was also flying the Progress Pride flag above its building in London’s Threadneedle Street on Wednesday.
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey with the new £50 note, featuring Alan Turing, at Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes (Joe Giddens/PA)
Wednesday, 23 Jun 2021 07:14 AM MYT
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey holds the new £50 note, which features Alan Turing, at Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes, Britain June 21, 2021. ― Pool via Reuters
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LONDON, June 23 ― A new £50 (RM290) banknote featuring the mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing enters circulation in Britain yesterday, three months after the Bank of England first unveiled the design.
Turing is best known in Britain for designing machines to decrypt coded messages during World War Two, and before the war his work laid the theoretical foundation for modern computer science. Later he made discoveries in developmental biology.
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