Nigel Goldenfeld
Nigel Goldenfeld | |
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| Born | Nigel David Goldenfeld May 1, 1957 (age 69) St Pancras, London, England |
| Education | 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.[citation needed]
Education
[edit]Goldenfeld was educated at the University of Cambridge (UK) where received his Ph.D. in 1982.
Career and research
[edit]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
[edit]- ↑ 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