IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII…III British seamen owe their lives to Alan Turing. Now

the Queen is up to decide whether Turing will become a knight. In difference to other heroes of WW II Turing did not receive this honor because of his homosexuality. Instead he was castrated. Now an online petition asks the Queen to knight the mathematician post mortem (Tages-Anzeiger, Donnerstag, 3. September 2009)

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