Famous Code Breaker’s Manuscript Sells for a Million Dollars

It took only two minutes before a handwritten manuscript of World War II code breaker Alan Turing sold for $1.025 million at auction. The notebook includes 56 pages of notes by Turing from the mid-1940s. Turning’s life has garnered increased interest after the release of the film The Imitation Game, which won an Oscar and features Benedict Cumberbatch  portraying Turning.

See Jennie Matthew, Key Handwritten Scientific Document by Alan Turing Sells for $1 Million in New York, Art Daily, Apr. 17, 2015.

Special thanks to Brian Cohan (Attorney at Law, Law Offices of Brian J. Cohan, P.C.) for bringing this article to my attention.