More Enigma
A couple more snippets from
Enigma - The Battle for the Code
by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore.
Alan Turing again:
But ironically, the very innocence which had helped him to come up with his ideas in the first place - he worked some of them out without referring to published material dealing with similar subject matter - led the an unfortunate incident in 1952. In the course of reporting a theft, he unwisely told the investigating detectives that he was having a homosexual relationship with the friend of the man who had done the thieving. Turing was prosecuted for indecent behaviour and, in spite of his OBE and a glowing character witness statement from Hugh Alexander, he only escaped going to prison by allowing himself to be injected with female hormones - so-called organotherapy - as a result of which he developed breasts, like a woman. Two years later he was found dead in his rooms, after he had poisoned himself with cyanide. No-one was able to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt whether he had committed suicide - although this was the verdict of the coroner at the inquest - or whether he had inadvertently licked cyanide off an apple during the course of an experiment; an apple coated with cyanide was found half eaten beside his corpse.
and this, below:
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