Computing pioneer and LGBT icon Alan Turing will grace the £50 note in 2021
Alan Turing, one of the pioneering figures in modern computing, and also a tragic one in LGBT history, will soon appear on the U.K.'s £50 note. The nomination process for who would appear on the new note was open to the public, with the limitation this time that those nominated were British scientists of some form or another. Mary Anning (1799-1847) – a self-taught palaeontologist known around the world for the fossil discoveries she made in her hometown of Lyme Regis.
