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in 952 he was convicted of gross indecency for his private relationship with a man avoiding prison only vice submitting to chemical castration his security clearance was revoked for no other reason than his homosexuality bringing to an end a promising postwar career as a consultant for g c h q. he died shortly thereafter on the 7th of june 954 from sinai point poisoning and we ll never know how many more lifetimes of discovery were lost as a result. of the tragic end there of a brilliant mind it has taken a long time for britain s alan turing to receive full recognition for the services that he remembered for his country in the 2nd world war but the bank of england has now announced that the computer pioneer will be featured on the u.k. s new 50 pound
war effort. touring who had designed a computer on paper as early as 1936 built and programmed a vast calculator. its achievement was measured in lives. it s been said that 11 million people a year were dying during the second world war, so the work that was done there shortened the war by two years so that s 22 million lives that were saved. reporter: after the war he worked on the first computers while engineers were still struggling to make the len tronices work, he began developing art tishl electronics. but he was gay and though a gay life existed underground in the 50s, it was illegal. convicted of gross indecency, he avoided prison by agreeing to so-called chemical cass stration. he committed suicide in 1954 eating a cyanide poisoned apple. it was a crime for him and 50,000 other gay and bisexual men, but sadly they are not getting a pardon, he is.