Alan Turing Statue

Manchester


A statue of the noted mathematician, code breaker and gay martyr Alan Turing, who taught at the University of Manchester from 1946–52, when he lost his job because of his homosexuality. The apple in his right hand symbolises the manner in which he allegedly took his own life, by eating a poisoned fruit.


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