Alan Turing

Alan Turing (1912 – 1952) was a mathematician code-breaker from WW2 whose “Turing Machine” is considered to be a conceptual model of a general purpose computer.

He was particularly interested in mathematical biology and wrote a paper on The Chemical Basis Of Morphogenesis which now other research has caught up with him and 60 years after his death, has proved to contain unusual and accurate insights into how plants grow.

His life was lost due to intolerance and leaves a huge question as to what he might have revealed had he lived longer.

• Turing's theory of chemical morphogenesis validated 60 years after his death
• Professor Phillip Maini presents a lecture on Biological mathematics and Turings theories on Morphogenesis
• Professor Phillip Maini presents a brief paper dated January 2012, on research into Turings theories of Morphogenesis
• A BBC Horizon biopic program about Alan Turing's life (part 1)
• BBC Horizon Alan Turing biopic (part 2)
• Alan Turing
• New Research Validates Turing’s Morphogenesis Theory
• The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis by A. M. Turing
• Turing Digital Archive
• Alan Turing.org
• Put Alan Turing on the next £10 note

Useful Articles & Links

• Climbing Into The Dead Zone (pdf opens in new window)
• Terravention In Context (pdf opens in new window)
• Timber & woodchip “Activity Landscaping Design Guide”. (pdf opens in new window)
• Phase change and the regulation of shoot morphogenesis in plants.
• Phase Changes are shifts in plant development
• Phase Change and the Regulation of Developmental Timing in Plants
• Phase Change and the Regulation of Shoot Morphogenesis in plants
• The Laboratory of Plant Morphogenesis
• Morphogenesis - Molecular Cell Biology
• Phase change and the regulation of shoot morphogenesis in plants (different from above)
• Morphogenesis in Plants-A Contemporary Study
• The Laboratory of Plant Morphogenesis
• Mechanisms of Morphogenesis
• Permian vegetational Pompeii from Inner Mongolia and its implications for landscape paleoecology and paleobiogeography of Cathaysia. (opens in new window)