Scientists call for pardon of codebreaker Alan Turing

Finally... Turing was a great man and it is deplorable that he was discriminated against because of his sexual orientation.

The scientists said: "We write in support of a posthumous pardon for Alan Turing, one of the most brilliant mathematicians of the modern era.

"He led the team of Enigma codebreakers at Bletchley Park, which most historians agree shortened the Second World War.

"Yet successive governments seem incapable of forgiving his conviction for the then crime of being a homosexual, which led to his suicide, aged 41."

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