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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A brilliant mind that saved millions faced prosecution and chemical castration by the nation he'd just helped win the war. The post The man whose codebreaking may have helped to shorten the Second World War by two years met a grim reward: in 1952 Alan Turing …