Bletchley Park Supporters Fight to Save Alan Turing Papers (fwd)

18 Nov 2010

Bletchley Park Supporters Fight to Save Alan Turing Papers
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A campaign launched by an independent supporter of the Bletchley Park 
Trust faces a race against time to save what maybe the most complete 
collection of Turing's works in the world.

Alan Mathison Turing was one of the pre-eminent WW2 Codebreakers; 
mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist who died 
tragically at the age of just 41 without having received public 
recognition for his wartime achievements.
 
Christie's is to auction off an impressive quantity of Turing's offprints, 
including fifteen of his eighteen published papers.  It is thought to be 
the largest collection in the world, put together by Turing's friend and 
fellow Bletchley Park Codebreaker Professor Max Newman to whom Turing 
presented the offprints.  

Gareth Halfacree, an independent supporter of the Bletchley Park Trust, 
has launched a campaign to raise the money needed to purchase the 
collection for permanent public display at Bletchley Park, saying "They 
belong in a dedicated museum, but Bletchley Park can't afford the 
£300,000 to £500,000 guide pric.../snip/


http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/news/docview.rhtm/626664

http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=10&intObjectID=5370960&sid=5d471a41-553e-4a2d-b9ee-cf27e36133b8

http://www.justgiving.com/turing-papers/