Salute to the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics' new captain: cosmologist Neil Turok.


	Salute to the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics' new captain: cosmologist Neil Turok.

Beholder

5-11-2008 9:53 AM

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"What the director has to do, and what the other senior faculty have to do, is create an atmosphere in which excellence becomes the norm. ... And then you basically provide the freedom for people to follow their own instincts and their own ideas. So that's the kind of atmosphere we want."

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