Alan Turing Manchester Enigma & Icon
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Alan Turing Manchester Enigma & Icon
Image: © Gerald England Taken: 18 Aug 2022
This mural is a tribute to one of the country's most celebrated mathematicians, a key figure in the breaking of Germany's enigma code during the Second World War, who worked at Manchester University and died in Wilmslow. His work led to a breakthrough that arguably shortened the war and saved many lives, but he wasn't recognised due to his homosexuality, which was then a crime in the UK. He was posthumously pardoned in 2013. It is the work of Tankpetrol http://www.tankpetrol.com/ , courtesy of M20 Property Company, who donated the use of the former public convenience next to Southern Cemetery Bus Station for works by Manchester artists that celebrate the city.
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Image Location
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53.425241
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