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[-] Soup@lemmy.world 36 points 4 days ago

Alan Turing? Alan “I was a major key to winning World War 2 and yet they still chemically castrated me in 1952 as an alternative to imprisonment as a punishment for ‘homosexual acts’” Turing? The guy who died at 41 years old and never got even a peep of an apology and whose government only apologized in 2009? The guy who queen Elizabeth II only pardoned four years later in 2013?

This guy did so much for the world and then they threw him in the garbage because he was gay.

[-] WiredBrain@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 days ago

It's strange how many could shrug off the genocidal crimes of Nazi scientists, all while doing this to one of the creators of modern computing just for acting a bit gay... Condoning murder while condemning love...

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 19 points 4 days ago

The polish had largely reverse engineered the enigma machine, they gave their notes to bletchley park, and Turing refined their codes using more notes gathered by the french

Not to undermine the genius of Turing himself, but crediting the enigma cracking to purely him is a disservice to everyone involved in that endeavour

[-] TachyonTele@piefed.social 10 points 4 days ago

This is true. It was very much a team effort.

[-] match@pawb.social 13 points 4 days ago

Happy pride month, Alan Turing

[-] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

Did you hear about the hero in the British government who did amazing work in winning a war the British viewed as existential, but killed himself over charges of "criminal" homosexuality? What? No not Alan Turing. You mean it happened twice? The other guy.

[-] standarduser@lemm.ee 9 points 4 days ago
[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 2 points 4 days ago

I think she invented the smallpox vaccine.

[-] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Uhh that’s wrong… she invented smallpox

[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 3 points 4 days ago

No, I remember learning about it at school. She found that people who caught cowpox (which was mild) never caught smallpox (which was deadly), so she took some stuff from a cowpox lump and injected it into a boy called James Phipps, who then, despite her best efforts to repeatedly infect him with smallpox, remained smallpox-free, therefore inventing the first vaccine.

[-] standarduser@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago

I thought that was Steve Jobs

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