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Birth
Alan Mathison Turing was born on June 23, 1912 in Maida Vale London. He was born to parents Julius Mathison Turing and Ethel Sara Turing. -
Childhood Education
At the age of 14, Alan Turing went to Sherborne School, a boarding independent school in the market town of Sherborne in Dorset. -
Graduation from Cambridge
Turing graduates with distinction in Mathematics from King's College, Cambridge. -
Central Limit Theorem
Turing proves the central limit theorem in his dissertation and is made a fellow at King's at the age of just 22. -
On Computable Numbers and an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem
Turing published a paper called On Computable Numbers and an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem. The concepts in this paper would later be known as the Turing Machine, but at the time he called it the Universal Machine -
Awarded a PHD
At 23 years old, Turing finished up his final years of school and received his PhD from Princeton University. -
Government Codes and Ciphers School
Turing is asked to join the Government Codes and Ciphers School and arrives at Bletchley Park the day after war is declared -
The Bombe
Turing develops the Bombe which is a device for decrypting messages sent by Germans using the Enigma machine. This helped the Allies win World War II especially the Battle of the Atlantic. -
Bell Laboratories
Turing is asked to work as a top level intelligence link with USA, which he visits to share information on cryptology (code-breaking). Works at Bell Laboratories on speech encypherment. -
OBE
Turing was awarded an OBE for his services to his country during World War II. -
Turing Machine
While at the University of Manchester, Alan Turing developed one of his most famous inventions, the Turing machine. The machine could calculate real numbers with accuracy far more efficiently than any person could reasonably do. -
Turning Test
Alan publishes the famous paper 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence' in which he explores the problem of artificial intelligence and proposes an experiment which attempts to define a standard for machine intelligence through what is now known as the Turing Test. -
Arrest
Alan is arrested for gross indecency. He loses his security clearance so he cannot work. He is offered chemical treatment instead of going to prison. The treatment makes him very unwell. -
The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis
Alan Turing publishes his article 'The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis' which describes the way in which non-uniformity may arise naturally out of a homogeneous, uniform state. The theory has served as a basic model in theoretical biology. -
Death
Alan Turing committed suicide by poisoning himself with a cyanide laced apple
