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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 ]
The original ekpyrotic model was introduced by Justin Khoury, Burt Ovrut, Paul Steinhardt and Neil Turok in 2001. [2]Steinhardt created the name based on the Ancient Greek word ekpyrosis (ἐκπύρωσις, "conflagration"), which refers to a Stoic cosmological model in which the universe is caught in an eternal cycle of fiery birth, cooling and rebirth.
3, including Neil Turok Benjamin Turok (26 June 1927 – 9 December 2019) was a South African anti-apartheid activist , politician, and economics professor. He represented the African National Congress in the post-apartheid National Assembly from 1994 to 2014.
In May 2008, Dr. Neil Turok, a cosmologist, was appointed as Perimeter Institute's second director replacing Howard Burton. [11] Lazaridis donated a subsequent $50 million on June 4, 2008. [ 12 ] In November 2008, it was announced that physicist Stephen Hawking would take the position of Distinguished Visiting Research Chair, a visiting ...
Neil Turok (born 1958) Giovanni Felder (born 1958) Nicolai Reshetikhin (born 1958) Emil Martinec (born 1958) Étienne Klein (born 1958) John Wheater (born 1958) David A. Huse (born 1958) David B. Kaplan (born 1958) Erich Runge (born 1959) Stephen Wolfram (born 1959) Steven R. White (born 1959) Horng-Tzer Yau (born 1959) Orfeu Bertolami (born 1959)
AIMS was the subject of a talk [2] by Neil Turok after he received the TED Prize in 2008. [3] Neil Turok's TED wish was that, within his lifetime, an African Einstein would be celebrated. The AIMS Next Einstein Initiative [4] is a plan to create 15 more AIMS centres across Africa. These centres intend to create institutions that are equipped ...
According to the theory of cosmic inflation, the very early universe underwent a period of very rapid, quasi-exponential expansion.While the time-scale for this period of expansion was far shorter than that of the existing expansion, this was a period of accelerated expansion with some similarities to the current epoch.
Turok is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ben Turok (1927–2019), South African anti-apartheid activist; Marta Turok (born 1952), Mexican anthropologist; Mary Turok, South African politician; Neil Turok (born 1958), South African physicist