One author said he hoped Tuesday’s symbolic act - the famous mathematician committed suicide more than 50 years ago - would send a message to countries such as India and Russia, where gays can still be prosecuted for expressing their sexuality.
Others say the pardon doesn’t go far enough, noting that thousands of others shared in Turing’s humiliation in the years during which Britain criminalized homosexual behavior.
For lawmaker Iain Stewart, one of many who campaigned for the pardon, the act helped right a massive wrong. ‘He helped preserve our liberty,’ Stewart said.
‘We owed it to him in recognition of what he did for the country - and indeed the free world - that his name should be cleared.’
Turing’s contributions to science spanned from computer science to biology, but he’s perhaps best remembered as the architect of the effort to crack the Enigma code, the cipher used by Nazi Germany.
Others say the pardon doesn’t go far enough, noting that thousands of others shared in Turing’s humiliation in the years during which Britain criminalized homosexual behavior.
For lawmaker Iain Stewart, one of many who campaigned for the pardon, the act helped right a massive wrong. ‘He helped preserve our liberty,’ Stewart said.
‘We owed it to him in recognition of what he did for the country - and indeed the free world - that his name should be cleared.’
Turing’s contributions to science spanned from computer science to biology, but he’s perhaps best remembered as the architect of the effort to crack the Enigma code, the cipher used by Nazi Germany.