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Alan Turing
Wikidata describes Alan Turing as English computer scientist (1912–1954).
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English Wikidata description, retrieved 2026-11-05 UTC. This is a starting point; independent biography review is pending.
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Career highlights
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- Award received: Fellow of the Royal Society · dated 1951
- Notable work: On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem
- Employer: Victoria University of Manchester · from 1948-03 · to 1952
- Education: Hazlehurst Community Primary School · to 1926
- Award received: Officer of the Order of the British Empire · dated 1946-06-24
- Notable work: Computing Machinery and Intelligence
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