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The man whose codebreaking may have helped to shorten the Second World War by two years met a grim reward: in 1952 Alan Turing was convicted simply for being gay and chemically castrated; a royal pardon came only in 2013, decades after his death
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The man whose codebreaking may have helped to shorten the Second World War by two years met a grim reward:
A brilliant mind that saved millions faced prosecution and chemical castration by the nation he'd just helped win the war.Space Daily Editorial Team
