I agree that Alan Turing was a brilliant man and he will be on the £50 note because of that.
I was merely making a point that the PERSECUTION he suffered because of his homosexuality will have evoked some/a good deal of public sympathy, as it did with me. That goes alongside but very much as a...
Given that it was a "people's Choice", I think it is clearly significant because of the homosexuality bit as well as for his work...… which is I guess the point.