Etymology

Turing pattern

Today it means: A pattern, found in nature, that arises naturally and autonomously from a homogeneous, uniform state, through instability. Full definition →

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The story

Introduced by English mathematician Alan Turing in a 1952 paper titled The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis.

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