{"id":5205,"date":"2013-12-26T15:27:57","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T22:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5205"},"modified":"2013-12-30T15:30:44","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T22:30:44","slug":"merry-christmas-mr-turing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/26\/merry-christmas-mr-turing\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas, Mr. Turing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alan Turing, code-breaker castrated for homosexuality, receives royal pardon<\/h1>\n
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By\u00a0Jethro Mullen<\/strong>, CNN<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Castrated code-breaker receives pardon<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

(CNN)<\/strong>\u00a0— Alan Turing, a British code-breaker during World War II who was later subjected to chemical castration for homosexual activity, has received a royal pardon nearly 60 years after he committed suicide.<\/p>\n

Turing was best known for developing the Bombe, a code-breaking machine that deciphered messages encoded by German machines. His work is considered by many to have saved thousands of lives and helped change the course of the war.<\/p>\n

“Dr. Turing deserves to be remembered and recognized for his fantastic contribution to the war effort and his legacy to science,” British Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said in a statement Tuesday. “A pardon from the Queen is a fitting tribute to an exceptional man.”<\/p>\n

Turing’s castration in 1952 — after he was convicted of homosexual activity, which was illegal at the time — is “a sentence we would now consider unjust and discriminatory and which has now been repealed,” Grayling said.<\/p>\n

Two years after the castration, which Turing chose to avoid a custodial sentence, he ended his life at the age of 41 by eating an apple laced with cyanide.<\/p>\n

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