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Turing in an effort to provide a chemical basis for biological structures and patterns such as those on animal coats. Turing's work has had considerable influence on theoretical developments in pattern formation. His mechanism has been utilized to describe pattern formation in semiconductor physics [5,
- István Lengyel, Irving R. Epstein
- 1995
May 1, 2016 · Along with the experimental observations in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction and the development of the nonequilibrium thermodynamics by Prigogine and co-workers, Turing predictions are...
Turing proposed that intercellular reaction-diffusion of molecules is responsible for morphogenesis. The impact of this paradigm has been profound. We exploit an abiological experimental system of emulsion drops containing the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reactants ideally suited to test Turing’s theory.
BY A. M. TURING, F.R.S. University qf Manchester (Received 9 November 195 1-Revised 15 March 1952) It is suggested that a system of chemical substances, called morphogens, reacting together and diffusing through a tissue, is adequate to account for the main phenomena of morphogenesis.
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In 1952, the British mathematician Alan Turing wrote a paper in which he suggested that chemical reactions with appropriate nonlinear kinetics coupled to diffusion could lead to the formation of stationary patterns of the type encountered in living organisms.
Turing proposed that an embryo becomes patterned into regions with different anatomical fates by chemical substances called morphogens (literally ‘shape-formers’), which diffuse through ...
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Scientists have long been intrigued by a mechanism first predicted by Alan Turing that leads to self-organizing chemical patterns. Now they have a guide to creating them experimentally.
