This post is a basic timeline of Alan Turing (1912-1954). There are 18 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia
- 1912: Born in London, England
- 1926: Enrolls at Sherborne School
- 1931: Enrolls at King's College in Cambridge
- 1935: Elected Fellow of King's College for central limit theorem proof
- 1936: Publishes On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem
- 1936: Enrolls at Princeton University
- 1938: Publishes Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals
- 1938: Begins working at the Government Code and Cypher School
- 1939: Solves the German naval indicator system
- 1942: Begins working with US Navy cryptanalysts and Bell Labs
- 1942: Creates Turingery technique in cryptography
- 1946: Publishes paper on stored-program computer design (ACE)
- 1948: Becomes reader at the University of Manchester
- 1948: Begins writing Turbochamp chess program
- 1950: Proposes Turing test for artificial intelligence
- 1952: Publishes The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis
- 1952: Prosecuted for homosexual acts
- 1954: Died at age 41 in Cheshire, England
