Apology Sought for Alan Turing: Persecuted for Being Gay

Scientists including Richard Dawkins are campaigning to get the government to issue a formal apology for the 1952 prosecution for homosexuality of Alan Turing, the great computer scientist and mathematician. Turing was punished via chemical castration and later committed suicide.

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