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Britain's spy agency honours codebreaker Turing in giant artwork
A view shows an artwork of Alan Turing installed by the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) inside the Doughnut building as a 50 pound note featuring him goes into circulation on his birthday, in Cheltenham, Britain, in this image obtained by Reuters on June 21, 2021. Picture taken with a drone. CROWN COPYRIGHT 2021/Handout via REUTERS
LONDON, June 23 (Reuters) - Britain's GCHQ spy agency has installed a giant multicoloured artwork to celebrate codebreaker and mathemetician Alan Turing, who helped turn the tide of World War Two against Nazi Germany but was persecuted for being gay.
The 10-metre (33-ft) by 10-metre artwork in the centre of the agency's doughnut-shaped headquarters depicts Turing inside the wheels of the "bombe" codebreaker machine that he designed.
Considered the father of modern computing, Turing led a team that cracked the Nazis' naval Enigma code for British spies, a breakthrough dramatised in the 2014 thriller "The Imitation Game".
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