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Did Turing prove the undecidability of the halting problem?

Did Turing prove the undecidability of the halting problem?

We discuss the accuracy of the attribution commonly given to Turing's 1936 paper "On computable numbers..." for the computable undecidability of the halting problem, coming eventually to a nuanced conclusion.