Alan Turing finally receives his New York Times obituary.

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The “progenitor of modern computing” died in 1954 following government persecution for being gay. (Image: Getty)

A brilliant mathematician whom the British government persecuted for being gay, Alan Turing has been honored with an obituary in The New York Times more than half a century after his death.

Though Turing would go on to be celebrated as the…