Alan Turg broke the German Enigma durg World War II and vised the Turg mache and the Turg tt of puter telligence. Unabashedly gay, he mted suici after beg nvicted of homosexual acts.
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- ALAN TURG BGRAPHY: COMPUTER PNEER, GAY IN
- WWII BREAKER ALAN TURG GETS ROYAL PARDON FOR GAY NVICTN
- FILM ABOUT WW2 BREAKER ALAN TURG IS ATTACKED BY BGRAPHER FOR EXAGGERATG LOVE AFFAIR WH WOMAN BEE HE WAS GAY AND SAYS KEIRA KNIGHTLEY IS 'TOO GLAMORO'
ALAN TURG BGRAPHY: COMPUTER PNEER, GAY IN
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He killed himself 1954 after beg chemilly strated for homosexual activy.
Alan Turg, a Brish -breaker durg World War II who was later subjected to chemil stratn for homosexual activy, has received a royal pardon nearly 60 years after he mted suici. Turg’s stratn 1952 – after he was nvicted of homosexual activy, which was illegal at the time – is “a sentence we would now nsir unjt and discrimatory and which has now been repealed, ” Graylg said. Unabashedly gay, he mted suici after beg nvicted of homosexual acts.
WWII BREAKER ALAN TURG GETS ROYAL PARDON FOR GAY NVICTN
He also laid the groundwork for morn putg and theorized about artificial openly gay man durg a time when homosexual acts were illegal Bra, Turg mted suici after beg nvicted of "gross cency" and sentenced to a procre some ll "chemil stratn.
" He has sce bee a martyred hero of the gay muny. At the same time, he was also beg more aware of his inty as a gay man, and his philosophy was beg closely aligned wh the liberal left.
Gross cencyTurg had never been secretive about his homosexualy. [Countdown: 10 Milton Gay Rights History]He ntued his work quantum physics and cryptanalytics, but known homosexuals were eligible for secury clearance. Instead, by the narrow standards of his day, his reputatn was June 7, 1954, Alan Turg, a Brish mathematician who has sce been acknowledged as one the most novative and powerful thkers of the 20th century — sometim lled the progenor of morn putg — died as a crimal, havg been nvicted unr Victorian laws as a homosexual and forced to endure chemil stratn.
FILM ABOUT WW2 BREAKER ALAN TURG IS ATTACKED BY BGRAPHER FOR EXAGGERATG LOVE AFFAIR WH WOMAN BEE HE WAS GAY AND SAYS KEIRA KNIGHTLEY IS 'TOO GLAMORO'
Bra didn’t take s first steps toward crimalizg homosexualy until 2009 did the ernment apologize for his treatment. “Alan and the many thoands of other gay men who were nvicted, as he was, unr homophobic laws were treated terribly.
Among his enthiasms were his work on var scientific them, cludg morphogenis, the theory of growth and form blogy; his ntued secret ti to Bra’s postwar breakers; and long-distance was also, Hodg said, begng to explore the homosexual inty he had hidn when he proposed marriage 1941 to Joan Clarke, a Bletchley Park cryptanalyst.
At the time, Hodg wrote, known homosexuals were nied secury clearanc, which meant that Turg uld not be volved secret work durg the Cold War, leavg him exclud and embtered.