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Neil Geoffrey Turok (born 1958 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is the director of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He is the son of Mary and Ben Turok, activists in the anti-apartheid movement and the African National Congress. After graduating from Churchill College, Cambridge, Turok gained his doctorate from Imperial College, London, under the supervision of Professor David Olive, one of the inventors of superstring theory. After a postdoctoral post at Santa Barbara, he was an
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- Neil
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- male
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- South Africa
- Place of birth
- Johannesburg
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- researcher
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- University of London
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- David Olive
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- Residence
- Waterloo
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