Neil Turok
South African cosmologist · South Africa · On the map · Scientists · Born 1958 · age 67
Neil Geoffrey Turok 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.
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2026Fellow of the Royal SocietyAward2017John Wheatley AwardAward2008TED PrizeAward1992Maxwell Medal and PrizeAward1991Packard Fellowship for Science and EngineeringAward1958Born16 November 1958
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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 1958 · age 67
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