The British scientist Alan Turing’s Princeton doctoral degree, OBE medal and other items of memorabilia have been recovered in Colorado, 35 years after they were taken from Sherborne School in Dorset. Alan Turing on the £50 note is a triumph for British science – and for equality | Emily Grossman Read moreTuring, a great of British science, was persecuted for his homosexuality and died in 1954, aged 41, his death ruled a suicide. The items were stolen in 1984, the filing said, after a woman asked to see the Turing archive at Sherborne. In 2018, prompted by their being offered to the Colorado university library, federal officials searched a home and recovered the items. In her piece for the Guardian last year, Grossman wrote: “Turing’s importance goes beyond science.

Source: The Guardian January 21, 2020 13:41 UTC