Which Cambridge college was Alan Turing a fellow of?

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Which Cambridge college was Alan Turing a fellow of? Alan Turing was a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge.

Turing entered King’s College in 1931 to study mathematics and earned first-class honours in 1934. His undergraduate dissertation addressed the central limit theorem. Although a version of that theorem had previously been proved by Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg, the committee considered Turing’s approach sufficiently original to support his election as a fellow.

He was elected a Fellow of King’s College in 1935 and later worked there as a lecturer. The fellowship connected him with one of Cambridge’s major mathematical communities during the period in which he developed influential ideas about computability and the theoretical foundations of computing.

Turing’s Cambridge fellowship predates his wartime codebreaking work at Bletchley Park. A likely source of confusion is Trinity College: Turing applied for scholarships there as well as at King’s, but King’s was the college he attended and whose fellowship he held. He later studied at Princeton, where he completed his doctorate in 1938.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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