All Alan Turing articles
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NewsCollection of Alan Turing’s papers sells for a record £465,400
Items included a personal letter from his mother and an original copy of his only chemistry paper
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NewsAlan Turing papers expected to sell for thousands after narrowly missing the shredder
Collection includes personal copy of Turing’s sole chemistry paper
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ResearchTiniest Turing patterns found in atomically thin bismuth
Nanoscale stripes and networks that resemble animal markings could be used to make quantum wires
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ResearchTuring patterns explain shark scale development
The tooth-like scales on a shark’s skin show signs of reaction-diffusion molecular patterns, like human hair and chicken feathers
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ResearchTuring patterned membrane takes on water purification
Mathematician Alan Turing’s sole chemistry paper inspires self-assembling spotted and striped polymer structures
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ReviewExhibition: codebreakers and groundbreakers
A chance to read Alan Turing’s school reports and see an Enigma machine borrowed from GCHQ
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ResearchSynthetic cells pass bacterial Turing test
Chemical communication offers a way to determine how lifelike an artificial cell is
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OpinionHow the leopard got its spots
Alan Turing once looked to chemistry to suggest how patterns form
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FeatureTuring patterns
Code-cracker Alan Turing’s impact on chemistry is still being realised today, a century after his birth. Philip Ball investigates