Alan Turing will be the face of the new £50 banknote, making it the first time that someone convicted of homosexuality, or openly gay since the law was repealed, has been chosen.
Mr Turing is widely considered one of the founding fathers of computing.
‘Alan Turing was an outstanding mathematician whose work has had an enormous impact on how we live today,’ Carney said while making the announcement at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester.
‘As the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, as well as war hero, Alan Turing’s contributions were far ranging and path breaking. Turing is a giant on whose shoulders so many now stand.’ Read more