When I met Neil Turok to discuss the 15-year-old Jacob Barnett and other developments in modern physics, the director of Perimeter Institute was wearing shorts and a floral shirt. The South African ...
The goal of First Principles is good: Howard Burton, founding director of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, relates the setting up of the institute in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, ...
Canada's Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics was intended to become a world leader in the field. Eric Hand finds out if it has lived up to its ambitions. Working at the Perimeter Institute for ...