Nigel Goldenfeld
Nigel Goldenfeld | |
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| Born | Nigel David Goldenfeld May 1, 1957 (age 69) St Pancras, London, England |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (PhD) |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics Evolutionary biology[3] |
| Workplaces | University of California, San Diego University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Thesis | The statistical mechanics of polymer molecules in the solid state. (1982) |
| Sam Edwards | |
| Website | guava |
Nigel David Goldenfeld FRS (born May 1, 1957) is a Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego.[3] Previously he worked at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he served as director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute for Universal Biology,[4] and the leader of the Biocomplexity group at Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology.
Education
Goldenfeld was educated at the University of Cambridge (UK) where received his Ph.D. in 1982.
Career and research
Goldenfeld is a co-founder of Numerix and the author of the 1993 textbook "Lectures on Phase Transitions and the Renormalization Group,"[5] a widely used graduate textbook in statistical physics.
He is a Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of American Physical Society since 1995[6] and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) since 2024.[7]
References
- ↑ Schwink, Siv (October 1, 2019). "Goldenfeld Receives Leo P. Kadanoff Prize of the American Physical Society". Illinois Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB).
- ↑ "National Academy of Sciences: Nigel Goldenfeld"
- 1 2 Nigel Goldenfeld publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ↑ ""NASA Astrobiology Institute for Universal Biology"". Archived from the original on 2016-04-02. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
- ↑ Lawrie, Ian D. "Review of Lectures on Phase Transitions and the Renormalization Group by Nigel Goldenfeld" (PDF).
- ↑ "APS Fellow Archive". American Physical Society. (search on year=1995 and institution=University of Illinois)
- ↑ "Outstanding scientists elected as Fellows of the Royal Society | Royal Society".
- 1957 births
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
- Living people
- Santa Fe Institute people
- Fellows of the American Physical Society
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Fellows of the Royal Society