Books by Neil Turok

Neil Turok is one of the world's leading physicists. Currently the director of the cutting-edge Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, he was a professor of physics at Princeton and held a Chair of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge. He was awarded the 1992 James Clerk Maxwell medal of the U.K. Institute of Physics, and was recently honoured with a prestigious TED Prize and a 'Most Innovative People' award at the 2008 World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (WSIE). Born in South Africa, the son of ANC activists who were jailed under apartheid and then forced into exile, Turok founded the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), a pan-African network of centres for education and research.