Neil Turok
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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.
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Born | Neil Geoffrey Turok (1958-11-16) 16 November 1958 (age 65) |
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 |
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