During World War 2, Nazi Germany developed the Enigma Machine, which was a cipher device that could encode "unbreakable" messages. While the original code was solved by a Polish mathematician in the ...

Used during WWII to encrypt messages, the Enigma Machine played a significant role in wartime communications. This video ...

The Nazis sent coded messages through the cipher machines to their ships and U-boats to plan devastating attacks on Allied shipping. The British codebreakers at Bletchley Park, led by Alan Turing, ...

It is fitting that the greatest code-breaker of World War Two remains a riddle a hundred years after his birth. Alan Turing, the brilliant, maverick mathematician, widely considered to be the father ...

In 1939, after the outbreak of World War II, the Allied forces facing Germany had a problem. While it was easy to intercept German wireless communications, their content was difficult to decipher as ...

The home of computer pioneer Alan Turing is up for sale and it could be yours for a cool £1.1m. Copper Folly on Adlington Road, Wilmslow - home of Turing, the brilliant mathematician and Nazi ...

Second World War hero Alan Turing will today be officially pardoned for his “crime” of being gay. The renowned scientist, who cracked Germany’s Enigma code, was convicted of gross indecency and ...

To the world, Alan Turing is ­remembered as Britain’s wartime code-breaking genius, the man who unlocked the secrets of the Enigma machine. But to one little girl, the tormented gay mathematician ...

Turing's remarkable life is retold in tonight's World War Two thriller, The Imitation Game, airing on BBC One at 10.40pm. Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch plays the scientist and mathematician as he ...

Alan Turing, the Second World War codebreaker widely regarded as the father of modern computing, may not have committed suicide but died as a result of an accident, an academic has claimed. Evidence ...