{"id":79494,"date":"2019-07-26T12:59:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T12:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=79494"},"modified":"2019-07-26T12:59:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T12:59:27","slug":"new-face-on-uks-50-pound-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/new-face-on-uks-50-pound-note\/","title":{"rendered":"New face on UK\u2019s 50 Pound Note"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<strong>Question: Who will appear on UK\u2019s new 50 pound note? <\/strong>\n<br>(a)\tStephen Hawkins \n<br>(b)\tWinston Churchill\n<br>(c)\tCharles Darwin \n<br>(d)\tAlan Turning\n<strong><br>Answer: (d)\n<br>Related facts: <\/strong>\n\n\n\n\n<ul><li>British mathematician and&nbsp;World War II codebreaker, Alan Turing will&nbsp;feature on UK&#8217;s new PS50 note. The mathematician will appear on the note by the end of 2021.<\/li><li>The note&#8217;s design will reflect Turing&#8217;s work and feature a ticker tape of binary numbers which translates to his birthday, i.e. 23<sup>rd<\/sup> June, 1912. It will also depict the &#8216;British Bombe&#8217; machine which helped crack the Enigma code.<\/li>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7086827700842303\" data-ad-slot=\"2662621974\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n<li>Turing killed himself on 7<sup>th<\/sup> June, 1954, about two years after being subjected to chemical castration, by consuming cyanide.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Alan Turning\u2019s contribution:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Alan Turing is touted to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.\u00a0<\/li><li>He worked towards cracking Germany&#8217;s Enigma code at Bletchley Park,\u00a0saving thousands of lives during World War II.<\/li><li>In July 1942, Turing developed a complex code-breaking technique Turingery for use against the Lorenz cipher messages produced by the Germans&#8217; new Geheimschreiber (secret writer) machine.<\/li><li>A paper published by the mathematician in 1937 introduced the Turing machine, which forms the basis of modern computing. He also studied cryptology, the study of codes and cyphers which can be used to send secret messages, and built three out of four stages of an electro-mechanical binary multiplier.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/education-today\/gk-current-affairs\/story\/alan-turing-uk-50-pound-note-father-of-modern-computing-1569994-2019-07-16\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/education-today\/gk-current-affairs\/story\/alan-turing-uk-50-pound-note-father-of-modern-computing-1569994-2019-07-16<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Who will appear on UK\u2019s new 50 pound note? (a) Stephen Hawkins (b) Winston Churchill (c) Charles Darwin (d) Alan Turning Answer: (d) Related facts: British mathematician and&nbsp;World War II codebreaker, Alan Turing will&nbsp;feature on UK&#8217;s new PS50 note. The mathematician will appear on the note by the end of 2021. 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