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He was arrested for "indecency" in 1952, pled guilty, and was punished via hormone injections that left him impotent. Despite this, Turing was open with his friends at King's College in Cambridge and pursued relationships with men beyond that circle of safety. While the societies of some of the other scientists on this list may have accepted their unorthodox lifestyles, or at least looked the other way, homosexuality was a crime in mid-century England.
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