David Tong | |
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| Born | Crawley, West Sussex, England |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | Instantons, monopoles, and three dimensional gauge theories (1998) |
| Doctoral advisor | Nicholas Dorey |
| Website | www |
David Tong is a British theoretical physicist. He is a professor at the University of Cambridge, working in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP). He is also a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.[1] His research mainly concerns quantum field theory. He is the joint recipient of the 2008 Adams Prize[2] and is currently a Simons Investigator.[3] He is also known for his outreach activities and for his freely available lecture notes covering a wide range of topics in physics.[4]