Alan Turing was a genius, with accomplishments spawning multiple domains such as mathematics, computer science, cryptography and more. Without him, WWII would have taken a whole different turn and may have ended with the Nazis winning. Nothing less.
However, his "crime" was that he was gay in UK in the fifties: the UK officially made homosexual relations legal in 1967. As such, Alan Turing was forced to undergo a hormone therapy to "suppress his urges."
Queen Elizabeth II finally pardoned Alan Turing.
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