Turing was found dead in his bed by his housekeeper Alan Turing, the British mathematical genius and codebreaker born 100 years ago on 23 June, may not have committed suicide, as is widely believed.

But Alan Turing was also gay in a time when society and the law disapproved of such sexual freedoms. Turing was not only prosecuted in 1952 for being gay, and found guilty of 'gross indecency' but ...

Britain has granted a posthumous pardon to Alan Turing, the World War II code-breaking hero who committed suicide after he was convicted of the then crime of homosexuality. Turing is often hailed as a ...

Alan Turing was a World War II code-breaker. He was also gay. Fifty-five years after the mathematician committed suicide, Downing Street has apologised for the "appalling" way in which he was treated ...

War rarely turns on one person alone, yet certain names continue to surface when the history of World War II is revisited. Alan Turing is one of them. Born in London in 1912, he was trained as a ...

A novel exploring homosexuality and the death of British mathematician Alan Turing has won the Wellcome Book Prize. Will Eaves has won the £30,000 prize for his fifth novel, Murmur, which has been ...

Alan Turing, the British mathematical genius and codebreaker born 100 years ago on 23 June, may not have committed suicide, as is widely believed. Turing expert Prof Jack Copeland has questioned the ...

He was one of the unsung heroes of World War Two, a brilliant mathematician and code-breaker who led the technological fight against Hitler. Some 55 years too late, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown ...