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• Neil Turok is a scientist and educator who holds the Chair of Mathematical Physics at the University of Cambridge. In his endeavors as a theoretical physicist, he has worked with such notables as Stephen Hawking and James Hartle. Turok and Hawking developed the Hawking-Turok Instanton Theory to explain the origin of the universe.

  In 2003, he founded the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences and in 2008 he became the Executive Director of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Ontario, Canada.TED: Neil Turok, Cosmologist and education activist Perimeter Institute: Dr. Neil Turok Appointed Executive Director of Perimeter Institute

• Fast Facts

  1. Born: 1958
  2. Birthplace: Johannesburg, South Africa
  3. Graduated from Churchill CollegeTED: Neil Turok, Cosmologist and education activist
  4. 1992: Awarded James Clerk Maxwell Medal of the Institute of PhysicsTED: Neil Turok, Cosmologist and education activist
  5. 2008: TED Conference Prize WinnerWired: Physicist Neil Turok: Big Bang Wasn't the Beginning (February 19, 2008)
  6. Developed the M Theory to explain the big bangTED: Neil Turok, Cosmologist and education activist

• Notable Works

  • 2007: Beyond the Big Bang
  • 2004: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution

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