Back in WW2 Alan Turing was
the man who broke enigma, which are encrypted codes designed by
Germany. Breaking enigma aided the allies drastically enabling them to win the war as well as end it much earlier saving about
14 million lives. Sadly he had allegations filed against him for homosexuality, resulting in chemical castration performed on him finally leading to his suicide in 1954 June 7. Aside from that, he helped the development of computers and other technologies. But most notably Alan Turing is the sole reason we do not live in an authoritarian society ruled by nazis today. Unfortunately most Americans & British
people do not give a
shit about his contributions since he was homosexual and so Alan Turing is not commemorated much