29 July 2012 Alan Turing, one of Britain's greatest
mathematicians and thinkers, worked at Bletchley Park during the
Second World War where he broke the Naval Enigma codes, allowing
Britain to gather intelligence it needed to win the war. As well
as developing plans for the Automatic Computing Engine, one of
the first computers as early as 1945, he theorised on "the
nature of spirit", showing "great interest in the paranormal
phenomena of telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition and
psychokinesis." Turing, who admitted to his onetime fiancée Joan
Clarke that he had "homosexual tendencies", was arrested in 1952
for having a sexual relationship with a man and sentenced to a
one-year course of female hormone treatment (used to “reduce the
libido of sexual offenders”). "Throughout his life, Turing broke
the codes of science and society," the introduction panel tells
us. This is the story of a man let down by his society,
suffering a tragic fate as a result. However, the exhibition
does not place undue focus on Turin