He participated in a few sports, such as rowing, but he loved running. Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images 1. We spoke with Hodges this week about some things many people don’t know about Turing. Sixty years later, Queen Elizabeth II officially pardoned Turing.Īndrew Hodges, a mathematician at the Mathematical Institute at Oxford University, wrote the biography “Alan Turing: The Enigma”, which inspired the film. He was only 41 years old.Īt the time of his death, the public had no idea what he had contributed to the war effort. Homosexuality was still a crime in Great Britain at the time, and Turing was convicted of “indecency.” He died from eating an apple laced with cyanide. Turing took his own life in 1954, two years after being outed as gay. On the PBS NewsHour tonight, Jeffrey Brown interviews Benedict Cumberbatch about his role as Turing in “The Imitation Game.” His work gave the Allies the edge they needed to win the war in Europe, and led to the creation of the computer. An English mathematician, logician and cryptographer, Alan Turing was responsible for breaking the Nazi Enigma code during World War II.
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