Papers and correspondence, ca. 1936-1972.

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Papers and correspondence, ca. 1936-1972.

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The papers include some biographical material, manuscript notes and drafts of published and unpublished work, and correspondence. Most of the working papers relate to the period from about 1940 until his death though there a few references in correspondence to his work in the 1930s.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Turing, Alan Mathison, 1912-1954

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