A collection of rare scientific papers by Alan Turing sold for a record £465,400 at auction in Lichfield, UK. The documents, discovered in a loft in London, included Turing's PhD dissertation and his influential paper 'On Computable Numbers'. The collection was nearly destroyed but is now recognized as crucial to modern computing. Turing, a key figure in WWII codebreaking, faced tragic treatment due to his sexuality and took his own life in 1954. Recent laws have sought to rectify historical injustices against him.