Neil Turok

Neil Turok
Turok in 2008
Born
Neil Geoffrey Turok

(1958-11-16) 16 November 1958 (age 65)
Alma materChurchill College, Cambridge
Imperial College London
UCSB
Fermilab
Known forEkpyrotic universe
Brane cosmology
Hawking–Turok instanton solutions
African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
AwardsMaxwell Medal and Prize (1992)
Scientific career
FieldsCosmology
InstitutionsUniversity of Edinburgh
Princeton University
University of Cambridge
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Thesis Strings and Solitons in Gauge Theories[1]  (1983)
Doctoral advisorDavid 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.

  1. ^ Neil Turok at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ "Neil TUROK - Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics".
  3. ^ "Perimeter Institute Director Emeritus Biography". Retrieved 6 November 2020.

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