Neil Turok
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, and has been director emeritus of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics since 2019. 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 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 (1983) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Olive |
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