Alan Turing (1912-1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst and philosopher whose formal account of computation, the Turing machine, became a model of a general-purpose computer and made him widely regarded as the father of theoretical computer science. During the Second World War he worked at Britain's Bletchley Park codebreaking centre, leading the section that broke German naval ciphers and devising techniques, building on the earlier Polish bomba method, that helped the Allies read Enigma-enciphered traffic. After the war he designed one of the first stored-program computer architectures and turned to mathematical biology, writing on the chemical basis of morphogenesis and predicting oscillating reactions later confirmed in the laboratory. In 1952 he was prosecuted under British law for homosexual acts and accepted chemical castration rather than prison; he died in 1954 of cyanide poisoning, ruled a suicide though the evidence is also consistent with accidental poisoning, and he received an official government apology and a royal pardon decades later.
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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account Defining MomentSourced to the subject's own accountThe Church-Turing thesis: Turing machines and the lambda calculus can compute anything computable 1 Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account Notable PublicationSourced to the subject's own accountOn Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem 1 Death YearSourced to the subject's own account Death DateSourced to the subject's own account BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own accountMaida Vale, London, England 1 Death PlaceSourced to the subject's own accountWilmslow, Cheshire, England 1 Classification
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Alan Mathison Turing (; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician and logician widely regarded as the father of theoretical computer science.
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23 June 1912 - 7 June 1954
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Turing died on 7 June 1954, aged 41, from cyanide poisoning
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Maida Vale, London, England
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Died 7 June 1954(1954-06-07) (aged 41) Wilmslow, Cheshire, England
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he finished and delivered his 36-page paper for publication called On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem
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According to the Church-Turing thesis, Turing machines and the lambda calculus are capable of computing anything that is computable.
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was an English mathematician
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Alan Mathison Turing (; 23 June 1912-7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist.
Influenced By: Alonzo Church, Princeton section
From September 1936 to July 1938, Turing spent most of his time studying under Church at Princeton University, in the second year as a Jane Eliza Procter Visiting Fellow.
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Alan Mathison Turing (; 23 June 1912-7 June 1954) was an English mathematician and logician widely regarded as the father of theoretical computer science.
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Alan Mathison Turing (; 23 June 1912-7 June 1954) was an English mathematician and logician widely regarded as the father of theoretical computer science.
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Alan Turing (1912-1954) was a British philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Analytic Philosophy.
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