{"id":2908,"date":"2009-09-17T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T10:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=2908"},"modified":"2009-09-17T12:27:41","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T10:27:41","slug":"justice-for-alan-turing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2009\/09\/justice-for-alan-turing\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice for Alan Turing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/petitions.number10.gov.uk\/turing\/\">Petitions #10<\/a> has the full details:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>2009 has been a year of deep reflection \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a chance for Britain, as a nation, to commemorate the profound debts we owe to those who came before  &#8230;  we have this year a chance to mark and celebrate another contribution to Britain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fight against the darkness of dictatorship; that of code-breaker Alan Turing &#8230;<!--more--> Turing was a quite brilliant mathematician, most famous for his work on breaking the German Enigma codes. It is no exaggeration to say that, without his outstanding contribution, the history of World War Two could well have been very different &#8230; The debt of gratitude he is owed makes it all the more horrifying, therefore, that he was treated so inhumanely. In 1952, he was convicted of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcgross indecency\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in effect, tried for being gay. His sentence \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and he was faced with the miserable choice of this or prison &#8211; was chemical castration by a series of injections of female hormones.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Horrifying&#8230;<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 15.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petitions #10 has the full details: 2009 has been a year of deep reflection \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a chance for Britain, as a nation, to commemorate the profound debts we owe to those who came before &#8230; we have this year a chance to mark and celebrate another contribution to Britain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fight against the darkness of dictatorship; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2009\/09\/justice-for-alan-turing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Justice for Alan Turing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2553],"class_list":["post-2908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-software","tag-turing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2908"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2927,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions\/2927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}