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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 ]
Turok married Mary Butcher, a politician and activist. They had three sons together: Fred Turok; Ivan Turok; and Neil Turok, a cosmologist and founder of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Muizenberg, South Africa. [7] He died on the morning of 9 December 2019 at his home in Cape Town. He was 92 years old. [7] [8]
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)
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 ...
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.
A cyclic model (or oscillating model) is any of several cosmological models in which the universe follows infinite, or indefinite, self-sustaining cycles. For example, the oscillating universe theory briefly considered by Albert Einstein in 1930 theorized a universe following an eternal series of oscillations, each beginning with a Big Bang and ending with a Big Crunch; in the interim, the ...
Turok had three children – Neil, Fred, and Ivan – with her husband Ben, who died in December 2019. [1] [10] After retiring from frontline politics, the couple retired to the coastal suburbs of Cape Town, and Turok was an active member of the Muizenberg Tenants' Association [11] and later of the Noordhoek Ratepayers' Association. [4]
1992 Neil Turok [9] [10] [11] 1993 John Feather Wheater; 1994 Stephen Mark Barnett; 1995 Artur Konrad Ekert [12] 1996 Michael Christopher Payne; 1997 Michael Wilkinson; 1998 Andrew James Fisher; 1999 Jeffrey Robert Forshaw [13] [14] 2000 Andrew Martin Steane; 2001 Benjamin Simons; 2002 Andrew John Schofield; 2003 Tchavdar Nikolov Todorov; 2004 ...