Interesting Snippets from 2012-06-23

• The Science Museum's Alan Turing exhibition: A beautiful mind | The Economist

  LIKE artists, many scientists do not achieve the fame they deserve until after they are dead. Alan Turing, the British mathematician best-known for his codebreaking exploits at Bletchley Park during the second world war, and for fathering the information age, is a perfect example. The secret nature of his wartime work and the rarefied abstractness of his best-known papers - as well as his 1952 conviction for homosexual sex, which was illegal at the time - conspired to keep him relatively little-known for decades after his suicide in 1954.

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