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Alan Turing
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Turing formalized computation through the universal Turing machine, helped develop wartime cryptanalysis at Bletchley Park, designed the ACE at NPL, and worked on the Manchester Mark 1. His 1950 paper introduced the imitation game; his later work on morphogenesis became foundational in mathematical biology.
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Previously
1948-1954Reader in Mathematics and Deputy Director of the Computing Machine Laboratory, 
University of Manchester
University of Manchester1945-1948ACE computer designer and researcher, 
National Physical Laboratory
National Physical Laboratory
University of Cambridge
Princeton UniversityLifespan1912–1954
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