1912 (23 June): Birth, Paddington, London
1926-31: Sherborne School
1930: Death of friend Christopher Morcom
1931-34: Undergraduate at King's College, Cambridge University
1932-35: Studies quantum mechanics, probability, logic
1935: Elected fellow of King's College, Cambridge
1936: The Turing machine: On Computable Numbers...
submitted
1936-38: At Princeton University. Ph.D. Papers in logic, algebra, number
theory
1938-39: Return to Cambridge. Introduced to German Enigma cipher problem
1939-40 Devises the Bombe, machine for Enigma
decryption
1939-42: Breaking of U-boat Enigma cipher, saving battle of the Atlantic
1943-45: Chief Anglo-American consultant. Introduced to electronics
1945: National Physical Laboratory, London
1946: Computer design, leading the world, formally
accepted
1947-48: Papers on programming, neural nets, and prospects for artificial
intelligence
1948: Manchester University
1949: Work on programming and world's first serious use of a computer
1950: Philosophical paper on machine intelligence:
the Turing Test
1951: Elected FRS. Paper on non-linear morphogenesis theory
1952: Arrested and tried as a homosexual, loss
of security clearance
1953-54: Unfinished work in biology and physics
1954 (7 June): Death by cyanide poisoning, Wilmslow,
Cheshire.
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Alan Turing in 1946.
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