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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Asimina Arvanitaki on being named the first female research chair at the Perimeter Institute and navigating a male dominated field Asimina Arvanitaki wants to explain the universe. The Greek-born ...

WATERLOO - After a “stellar” decade as director of Waterloo’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Neil Turok is stepping down. “Under Neil’s direction, Perimeter Institute has positioned ...