The 2016 winner of the American Institute of Physics’ John Torrence Tate Award for International Leadership in Physics, South African Professor Neil Turok, is donating the US$10,000 cash prize to the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (Aims), Aims said on Tuesday.
The donation will be used to initiate an Aims scholarship in the name of Thierry Zomahoun, its president and chief executive, who Turok described as “a street kid who gained three masters degrees” and became an incredible manager and leader.
