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Neil Turok
Neil Turok | |
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 Turok in 2008 | |
| Born | Neil Geoffrey Turok 16 November 1958 |
| Alma mater | Churchill College, Cambridge Imperial College London UCSB Fermilab |
| Known for | Ekpyrotic universe Brane cosmology Hawking–Turok instanton solutions African Institute for Mathematical Sciences |
| Awards | Maxwell Medal and Prize (1992) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cosmology |
| Institutions | University of Edinburgh Princeton University University of Cambridge Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics |
| Thesis | Strings and Solitons in Gauge Theories[1] (1983) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Olive |
Neil Geoffrey Turok OC HonFInstP (born 16 November 1958) is a South African physicist. He has held the Higgs Chair of Theoretical Physics at the University of Edinburgh since 2020,[2] and has been director emeritus of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics since 2019.[3] He specializes in mathematical physics and early-universe physics, including the cosmological constant and a cyclic model for the universe.
- ^ Neil Turok at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Neil TUROK - Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics". 26 June 2019.
- ^ "Perimeter Institute Director Emeritus Biography". Retrieved 6 November 2020.
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