December 14, 2012

Pardon Alan Turing, Top Scientists Argue

Damian Pearse, The Guardian


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Alan Turing, the Enigma codebreaker who was convicted of homosexuality in 1952, should receive a posthumous pardon, Professor Stephen Hawking and other leading scientists have urged.

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