[Cryptography] Farewall, Alan Turing

[Grant Schultz]

Dave Horsfall wrote:
 >Died 1954, from a cyanide-laced apple. The Father of Computer Science,
 >and breaker of Enigma.
 >
 >Some think it was suicide (because of his homosexual tendencies), whilst
 >other believe it was murder.

Another theory is that it was accidental, as he apparently had an 
electroplating apparatus set up that used potassium cyanide. Fumes 
perhaps got him, or some got on his hands. He may have thought it was 
mere food poisoning, until it was too late.

- Grant Schultz
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