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During The Winter of 1952, British Authorities Entered The Home of Mathematician, Cryptanalyst And War Hero Alan Turing To Investigate a Reported Burglary. They Instead Ended Up Arresting Turing Himself On Charges of "Gross Indecency," An Accusation That Would Lead To His Devastating Conviction For The Criminal Offense of Homosexuality - Little Did Officials Know, They Were Actually Incriminating The Pioneer of Modern-Day Computing.

Famously Leading a Motley Group of Scholars, Linguists, Chess Champions And Intelligence Officers, He Was Credited With Cracking The So-Called Unbreakable Codes of Germany's World War II Enigma Machine.