David Tong (physicist)


David Tong is a professor of theoretical physics at DAMTP in Cambridge, a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and joint recipient of the 2008 Adams Prize. He was a postdoc at the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics. He was an Adjunct Professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
He is currently also a Simons Investigator. His main research interest is in Quantum Field Theory.
His most-cited paper, "", provides a possible observational test of one mechanism for inflation in the very early universe.
He is also well known amongst the students for his very enthusiastic lecturing and comprehensive lecture notes for courses he has taught at the University of Cambridge.

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