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 …

Feb 11, 2025 · Neil is a member of the following School research institute and research group: This article was last updated on Feb 11, 2025.

Nov 8, 2023 · Turok wondered whether a new perspective might explain dark matter, the stuff that clumps galaxies together, and the cosmological constant (or “dark energy”) that pushes the universe …

Jan 25, 2023 · To explain the cosmos without invoking cosmic inflation, physicist Neil Turok has proposed the existence of a mirror-image universe going backwards in time from the big bang.

Neil Turok works on understanding the universe's very beginnings. With Stephen Hawking, he developed the Hawking-Turok instanton solutions, describing the birth of an inflationary universe -- …

Professor Neil Turok is the Higgs Chair of Theoretical Physics at the University of Edinburgh, at the School of Physics and Astronomy. Prof Neil is a former Director of the Perimeter Institute for …

Neil Turok is a professor at the University of Edinburgh where he holds the Higgs Chair of Theoretical Physics. He acted as the director of Perimeter Institute from 2008 to 2019 and now holds...

Theoretical physicist Neil Turok, a professor of mathematical physics at Cambridge University and professor of physics at Princeton University, worked with Martin Bucher and Alfred Goldhaber to …

Neil Turok (PhD Imperial College London, 1983) holds the Carlo Fidani Roger Penrose Distinguished Visiting Research Chair in Theoretical Physics. He was Perimeter's Director from 2008 to 2019, in …

Professor Neil Turok works in a number of areas of mathematical and early-universe physics, focusing on observational tests of fundamental physics in cosmology.