Context: During WW2 Alan Turing was essential to the efforts to break the Nazi Enigma code. In 1952 the British government chemically castrated him for being gay, in 1954 he took his life.
Isn't the "took his life" thing disputed?
I heard there's some evidence that the cyanide was part of a natural process that he couldn't have known about and several of his close friends don't think it was suicide.