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Alan Turing The Queen has granted a pardon to World War 2 hero Alan Turing.  He was convicted of gay sex crimes and chemically castrated after he helped save the free world from the Nazis. He later committed suicide. Via Talking Points Memo: Turing's contributions to science spanned from computer science to biology, but he's perhaps best remembered as the architect of the effort to crack the Enigma code, the cipher used by Nazi Germany to secure its military communications. Turing's groundbreaking work -- combined with the effort of cryptanalysts at Bletchley Park near Oxford and the capture of several Nazi code books -- gave the Allies the edge across half the globe, helping them defeat the Italians in the Mediterranean, beat back the Germans in Africa and escape enemy submarines in the Atlantic.   "It could be argued and it has been argued that he shortened the war, and that possibly without him the Allies might not have won the war," said David Leavi...

Gay Hero Alan Turing The man who cracked the German code, the father of the modern computer and artificial intelligence was a gay man.  He saved countless lives during World War II and was rewarded with chemical castration, because he was gay.   Via LGBTQNation.com: Saturday, June 23, 2012 marks what would have been the 100th birthday of Alan Turing, a brilliant British mathematician and computer scientist who was highly influential in the creating what would become the modern computer, and is most famous for his work on breaking the German Enigma codes during World War II.   Turing is widely considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence.    Turing was also gay, and in 1952 was criminally prosecuted by his homeland for “homosexual acts” — he died of cyanide poisoning on June 7, 1954 in what was ruled a suicide. In 2009, The British Government issued an official apology for the injustice. A new biopic "The Imitatio...