Alan Turing, British mathematician, logician and cryptanalyst.
Was instrumental in cracking the German Enigma Machine during WWII. Considered a father of the modern computer.
Criminally prosecuted and sentenced for homosexuality in 1952, forced to choose between imprisonment or chemical castration (he chose the latter). Committed suicide in 1954.
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