Two years later in 1954, Turing committed suicide by cyanide poisoning, having been found with a half-eaten apple next to his bed. As a form of punishment for having an affair with a young man, Turing had the choice of prison or ‘hormonal treatment’ – in effect chemical castration. At the time though – this wasn’t the case.Īlthough Turing was briefly engaged to a woman, he was, in fact, homosexual – something which was shamefully illegal in the UK at the time. His work at Bletchley Park cracking the Enigma Code assured our eventual victory over Nazi Germany and his tireless work with the earliest computing machines pretty much cemented Alan as a true science pioneer and a national hero. Turing was a computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and arguably one of the greatest minds this country has seen – so great in fact that without him you’d probably speaking German and reading this on some parchment paper instead of on a shiny computer. What does a rainbow apple with a bite taken out of it have to do with Alan Turing? Well, for anyone who has done any research on him in the past, or has visited his statue in Sackville Gardens – quite a lot. Then there’s the fact that the apple has been bitten. Which makes perfect sense when you realise that the company itself is called ‘Apple’ – so Rob’s done himself a favour there. First of all, there’s the fact that the logo is an apple.
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