The Alan Turing Bibliography

The only published paper by Turing is:

• The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. London B 237 pp 37-72 (1952)

  Scan of Turing's own offprint copy, in Turing Digital Archive

  Typographically reset in the Impact volume, with many commentaries.

  Royal Society pdf copy.

• A Diffusion Reaction Theory of Morphogenesis in Plants, written with C. W. Wardlaw.

  This complete typescript went unpublished, presumably because Turing preferred the botanist Wardlaw to publish alone his paper A commentary on Turing's diffusion-reaction theory of morphogenesis, New Phytol. 52, pp 40-47.

• I. Geometrical and Descriptive Phyllotaxis


• II. Chemical Theory of Morphogenesis


• III. (with B. Richards) A Solution of the Morphogenetic Equations for the Case of Spherical Symmetry

• Outline of the Development of the Daisy



Printed in the Impact volume, with many further annotations and commentaries.

Extensive recent work on the unpublished papers is available from Jonathan Swinton on his website. Scans of all these Turing papers are in the Turing Digital Archive. Jonathan Swinton's guide to the material should be used, as the listing of material in the Archive is very haphazard.