![]() ![]() Elizebeth’s husband, plant biologist and fellow codebreaker William Friedman, was given much more credit than her, but he isn’t even close to being a standard history topic either. Shamefully, no teacher in my schooling ever uttered the name of the woman who author Jason Fagone refers to as “the great heroine of the Second World War” and “the most famous codebreaker in the world” of that era: Elizebeth Friedman (nee Smith). ![]() ![]() law named after him, based on his posthumous royal pardon (from an odious homosexual-“crimes” conviction) in 2013. ![]() Especially these days, Turing is revered and given proper recognition – and there’s even a U.K. There’s no shortage of writing and talk about him and his life, and his very name has become synonymous with codebreaking and forever associated with the vanquishment of Enigma, the Nazis’ notorious cipher machine.īesides being taught about Turing and the famous Turing Test in high school, I learned more about Big T from a wonderfully nutty professor in an Artificial Intelligence class I took at university. Though the genius Alan Turing deserves pity for the ultimately fatal persecution he suffered for his homosexuality, at least he’s since been admired and embedded deep in well-known history for his extraordinary mind and accomplishments. ![]()
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