*SIR DEREK JACOBI AS CODE BREAKER ALAN TURING AUTOGRAPHED 1986 PROGRAM PAGE*

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A rare original boldly autograped program photograph of Sir Derek Jacobi as gay British world War II code breaker Alan Turing (1912-1954) in Breaking the Code. With nine photographs of Derek Jacobi as Alan Turing to the reverse. Dimensions eight and a half by six inches. Light wear otherwise fine. See Derek Jacobi and Alan Turing's extraordinary biographies below.
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From Wikipedia:
Alan Mathison Turing
OBE
FRS
(
/
ˈ
tj
ʊər
ɪ
ŋ
/
; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English
mathematician
,
computer scientist
,
logician
,
cryptanalyst
,
philosopher
, and
theoretical biologist
.
[6]
Turing was highly influential in the development of
theoretical computer science
, providing a formalisation of the concepts of
algorithm
and
computation
with the
Turing machine
, which can be considered a model of a
general-purpose computer
.
[7]
[8]
[9]
He is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and
artificial intelligence
.
[10]
Born in
Maida Vale
, London, Turing was raised in
southern England
. He graduated at
King's College, Cambridge
, with a degree in mathematics. Whilst he was a
fellow
at Cambridge, he published a proof demonstrating that some purely mathematical yes–no questions can never be answered by computation and defined a
Turing machine
, and went on to prove the
halting problem
for Turing machines is
undecidable
. In 1938, he obtained his
PhD
from the
Department of Mathematics
at
Princeton University
. During the
Second World War
, Turing worked for the
Government Code and Cypher School
(GC&CS) at
Bletchley Park
, Britain's
codebreaking
centre that produced
Ultra
intelligence. For a time he led
Hut 8
, the section that was responsible for German naval cryptanalysis. Here, he devised a number of techniques for speeding the breaking of German
ciphers
, including improvements to the pre-war Polish
bombe
method, an
electromechanical
machine that could find settings for the
Enigma machine
. Turing played a crucial role in cracking intercepted coded messages that enabled the Allies to defeat the
Axis powers
in many crucial engagements, including the
Battle of the Atlantic
.
[11]
[12]
After the war, Turing worked at the
National Physical Laboratory
, where he designed the
Automatic Computing Engine
(ACE), one of the first designs for a stored-program computer. In 1948, Turing joined
Max Newman
's
Computing Machine Laboratory
, at the
Victoria University of Manchester
, where he helped develop the
Manchester computers
[13]
and became interested in
mathematical biology
. He wrote a paper on the chemical basis of
morphogenesis
[1]
and predicted
oscillating
chemical reactions
such as the
Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction
, first observed in the 1960s. Despite these accomplishments, Turing was never fully recognised in Britain during his lifetime because much of his work was covered by the
Official Secrets Act
.
[14]
Turing was prosecuted in 1952 for
homosexual acts
. He accepted hormone treatment with
DES
, a procedure commonly referred to as
chemical castration
, as an alternative to prison. Turing died on 7 June 1954, 16 days before his 42nd birthday, from
cyanide poisoning
. An inquest determined his death as a suicide, but it has been noted that the known evidence is also consistent with accidental poisoning.
Following a public campaign in 2009, the British Prime Minister
Gordon Brown
made an
official public apology
on behalf of the British government for "the appalling way [Turing] was treated".
Queen Elizabeth II
granted a posthumous pardon in 2013. The term "
Alan Turing law
" is now used informally to refer to a 2017 law in the United Kingdom that retroactively pardoned men cautioned or convicted under historical legislation that outlawed homosexual acts.
[15]
Turing has an
extensive legacy
with statues of him and
many things named after him
, including an
annual award
for computer science innovations. He appears on the current
Bank of England £50 note
, which was released on 23 June 2021, to coincide with his birthday. A
2019 BBC series
, as voted by the audience, named him the greatest person of the 20th century.
Sir Derek George Jacobi
CBE
(
/
ˈ
dʒ
æ
k
ə
b
i
/
; born 22 October 1938) is an English actor and film and theatre director. A "forceful, commanding stage presence",
[1]
Jacobi has enjoyed a successful and distinguished stage career, appearing in various stage productions of
William Shakespeare
such as
Hamlet
,
Much Ado About Nothing
,
Macbeth
,
Twelfth Night
,
The Tempest
,
King Lear
, and
Romeo and Juliet
.
[2]
He is also known for his performances in
Anton Chekov
's
Uncle Vanya
and
Edmond Rostand
's
Cyrano de Bergerac
.
[3]
He was given a
knighthood
for his services to theatre by
Queen Elizabeth II
in 1994
[4]
and is a member of the Danish
Order of the Dannebrog
.
In addition to being a founder member of the
Royal National Theatre
and winning several prestigious theatre awards, Jacobi has also enjoyed a successful television career, starring in the critically praised
[2]
adaptation of
Robert Graves
's
I, Claudius
(1976), for which he won a
BAFTA
; in the titular role in the medieval drama series
Cadfael
(1994–1998),
[5]
as
Stanley Baldwin
in
The Gathering Storm
(2002), as
The Master
in
Doctor Who
(2007), as Stuart Bixby in the
ITV
comedy
Vicious
(2013–2016) and as Alan Buttershaw in
Last Tango in Halifax
(2012–2020). In 2019, he played
Edward VIII
, the
Duke of Windsor
, in the third season of the critically acclaimed
Netflix
series
The Crown
.
[6]
Though principally a stage actor, Jacobi has appeared in a number of films, including
Othello
(1965),
The Day of the Jackal
(1973),
Henry V
(1989),
Dead Again
(1991),
Hamlet
(1996),
Gladiator
(2000),
Gosford Park
(2001),
Nanny McPhee
(2005),
The Riddle
(2007),
The King's Speech
(2010),
My Week with Marilyn
(2011),
Anonymous
(2011),
Cinderella
(2015), and
Murder on the Orient Express
(2017).
Jacobi has twice been awarded a
Laurence Olivier Award
, first for his performance of the eponymous hero in
Cyrano de Bergerac
in 1983 and the second for his Malvolio in
Twelfth Night
in 2009. He also received a
Tony Award
for his performance in
Much Ado About Nothing
in 1984. Jacobi has also received two
Primetime Emmy Awards
for
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie
for
The Tenth Man
(1988), and
Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series
for
Frasier
(2001). Jacobi has also earned two Screen Actors Guild awards along with the
ensemble cast
for
Robert Altman
's
Gosford Park
(2001), and
Tom Hooper
's
The King's Speech
(2010).