The Biography of Alan Turing: The Pioneer of Computer Science
- vasegamagazine
- Dec 29, 2014
- 1 min read
Alan Turing, the man credited along with his staff for cracking the "Enigma Code", the code the Nazi's were using to encrypt their messages to one another, recently had a movie released about his work and life, "The Imitation Game".
Played by Benedic Cumberbatch, the life and times of Turing depicts the struggles of a brilliant mathmatician who must conceal his homosexuality due to it's illegallity in Great Britain at the time.
At the end of Turing's life after being sentenced to hormonal therapy for being homosexual, he committed suicide.
At the end of the movie, the writer's let us know roughly 49,000 homosexual men (including Oscar Wilde) were sentenced to hormonal therapy or time in prison as a result to this British law. (1885-1967)
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