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1912 (23 June) Birth, Paddington, London
1926 Sherborne School
1928 Studies relativity
1930 Death of friend Christopher Morcom
1931 Undergraduate at King's College, Cambridge University
1932-35 Studies quantum mechanics, probability, logic
1935 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. Work on breaking
the German Enigma cipher
1940 Machine for Enigma decryption
1940-42 Breaking of U-boat Enigma cipher
1943-45 Chief Anglo-American consultant. Introduction to electronics
1945 National Physical Laboratory, London
1946 Computer design, leading the world, formally accepted
1947-48 Papers on software design, neural nets,
and prospects for artificial intelligence
1948 Leaves National Physical Laboratory with plan unfulfilled
1948 Manchester University
1949 Work on programming and first use of a computer
1950 The Turing Test
1951 Elected FRS. Paper on non-linear morphogenesis theory
1952 Arrest, trial, 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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