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Brown apologizes for Turing infamy 57 years ago, long due

· Andre Hoffmann · Announcements & Events Rant Science Theory

Gordon Brown issued an unequivocal apology last night on behalf of the government to Alan Turing, the second world war codebreaker who took his own life 55 years ago after being sentenced to chemical castration for being gay. Describing Turing's treatment as "horrifying" and "utterly unfair", Brown said the country owed the brilliant mathematician a …

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