The Turing Guide

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CHAPTER NOTES

CHAPTER 1 lIfE AND wORk (COPElAND AND BOwEN)

1. Letter from Jefferson to Sara Turing (18 December 1954), in the King’s College Archive, catalogue
   reference A16.


2. Parts of this chapter are adapted from Turing (Copeland 2012) and J. P. Bowen, ‘Alan Turing’, in The
   Scientists: an Epic of Discovery (ed. A. Robinson), Thames and Hudson (2012), 270–5.


3. ‘The great minds of the century’, Time, 153(12) (29 March 1999) (http://content.time.com/time/
   magazine/article/0,9171,990608,00.html).


4. Alan M. Turing (S. Turing 1959), p. 17.


5. Geoffrey O’Hanlon quoted in Alan M. Turing (S. Turing 1959), p. 39.


6. The Inquest Handbook, INQUEST (2011), Section 4.3.


7. J. A. K. Ferns, quoted in The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post (11 June 1954).


8. Alderley and Wilmslow Advertiser (18 June 1954).


9. D. Leavitt, ‘Alan Turing, father of computer science, is not yet getting his due’, Washington Post (23 June
   2012) (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/alan-turing-father-of-computer-science-not-yet-
   getting-his-due/2012/06/22/gJQA5eUOvV_story.html); M. Hastings, ‘Why I believe it’s wrong to par-
   don Bletchley Park code breaker Alan Turing for breaking the anti-gay laws of his time’, Daily Mail (3
   April 2014) (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2379515/The- moral-enigma-Bletchley-Parks-
   code-breaker-Alan-Turing-genius-undoubtedly-helped-defeat-Hitler-So-I-believe-wrong-pardon-
   breaking-anti-gay-laws-time.html#ixzz2xnZNELgU).


10. Manchester Guardian (11 June 1954).


11. Alan M. Turing (S. Turing 1959), p. 117.


12. Alan M. Turing (S. Turing 1959), p. 115.


13. Statement of Police Sergeant Leonard Cottrell before the coroner, in the King’s College Archive, cata-
    logue reference K6.


14. The Daily Telegraph (11 June 1954).


15. Statement of Police Sergeant Leonard Cottrell (see Note 13).


16. Statement of Police Sergeant Leonard Cottrell (see Note 13).


17. S. Turing ‘Comments by friends on the manner of Alan Turing’s death’, typescript (no date), in the
    King’s College Archive, catalogue reference A11.


18. J. L. Burgess and D. Chandler, ‘Clandestine drug laboratories’, in M. I. Greenberg et  al. (ed.),
    Occupational, Industrial, and Environmental Toxicology, 2nd edn, Mosby (2003), p. 759.


19. The apology appeared on the official website of the British Prime Minister (http://www.number10.
    gov.uk). Two sheets signed by Gordon Brown and headed ‘Remarks of Prime Minister Gordon
    Brown, 10 September 2009’ are now part of the ‘Life and Works of Alan Turing’ exhibition at
    Bletchley Park.