A collection of rare scientific papers by Alan Turing sold for a record £465,400 at auction in Lichfield, UK. The documents, discovered in a loft in London, included Turing's PhD dissertation and his influential paper 'On Computable Numbers'. The collection was nearly destroyed but is now recognized as crucial to modern computing. Turing, a key figure in WWII codebreaking, faced tragic treatment due to his sexuality and took his own life in 1954. Recent laws have sought to rectify historical injustices against him. Teljes cikk (Euronews.com)