Alan Turing – 1951 - National Portrait Gallery
June 23, 2012, is the Centenary of Alan Turing’s birth in London. During his relatively brief life, Turing made a unique impact on the history of computing, computer science, artificial intelligence, developmental biology, and the mathematical theory of computability.
2012 will be a celebration of Turing’s life and scientific impact, with a number of major events taking place throughout the year. Most of these will be linked to places with special significance in Turing’s life, such as Cambridge, Manchester and Bletchley Park.
Alan Turing may be most famous for cracking the Nazi's Enigma code during the Second World War but in this centenary year of his birth, an exhibition at Manchester Museum has chosen to explore his lesser-known, final work.
In the early 1950s Turing started an exploration into morphogenesis, the study of how living things develop their shape and structure from simple balls of cells.
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