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Gordon Brown apologized for the treatment of mathematician Alan Turing on homosexuality
British Prime Minister Gordon Brownapologized for the fact that the British authorities sentenced died 55 years ago, mathematician Alan Turing to the treatment of homosexuality. This was reported on the official website premier.Thus, Brown has met the requirements of the petition, which was signed more than thirty thousand people. The drafters of the petition also appealed to the Queen of Great Britain with a request to posthumously dedicate Turing knighted, says The Guardian.In Turing's no more living relatives, so that the apologies are symbolic. The message Brown calls mathematics one of the most famous victims of homophobia in the UK.The famous mathematician and one of the founders of the first electronic computers, Alan Turing was convicted of homosexuality in 1952. According to the court, he was made to choose between imprisonment and treatment of homosexuality by injecting female hormones, which, in essence, a chemical castration. Selecting treatment, one of the UK's leading cryptographers stopped appearing in public, and two years later died at the age of 41, after eating an apple with cyanide.Officially, the death of the Turing considered suicide.Alan Turing is known as a theorist of artificial intelligence, the creator of the Turing machine and the test for the presence of computers in mind. In 1940, Turing was able to decipher the code of the German cipher machine Enigma and a tool for reading messages, coded "Enigma."
British Prime Minister Gordon Brownapologized for the fact that the British authorities sentenced died 55 years ago, mathematician Alan Turing to the treatment of homosexuality. This was reported on the official website premier.Thus, Brown has met the requirements of the petition, which was signed more than thirty thousand people. The drafters of the petition also appealed to the Queen of Great Britain with a request to posthumously dedicate Turing knighted, says The Guardian.In Turing's no more living relatives, so that the apologies are symbolic. The message Brown calls mathematics one of the most famous victims of homophobia in the UK.The famous mathematician and one of the founders of the first electronic computers, Alan Turing was convicted of homosexuality in 1952. According to the court, he was made to choose between imprisonment and treatment of homosexuality by injecting female hormones, which, in essence, a chemical castration. Selecting treatment, one of the UK's leading cryptographers stopped appearing in public, and two years later died at the age of 41, after eating an apple with cyanide.Officially, the death of the Turing considered suicide.Alan Turing is known as a theorist of artificial intelligence, the creator of the Turing machine and the test for the presence of computers in mind. In 1940, Turing was able to decipher the code of the German cipher machine Enigma and a tool for reading messages, coded "Enigma."
