Beginning on his birthday, June 23, British mathematician, wartime codebreaker and computer pioneer Alan Turing will be the new face of the redesigned £50 note entering circulation in the UK.
In 1952, Turing was outed as a homosexual, publicly humiliated, and stripped of his job and his security clearances.
Convicted of having a consensual homosexual relationship (then illegal in the UK), he was sentenced to injections of diethylstilbestrol a synthetic estrogen that rendered him impotent and caused breast tissue to form.
Convicted of having a consensual homosexual relationship (then illegal in the UK), he was sentenced to injections of diethylstilbestrol a synthetic estrogen that rendered him impotent and caused breast tissue to form.
Turing, a national war hero, committed suicide from cyanide poisoning at age 41 -- a direct consequence of actions taken by the British Government and the Crown Prosecution Service.
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