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]
Nigel Goldenfeld | |
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| Born | Nigel David Goldenfeld May 1, 1957 (age 67) St Pancras, London, England |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (PhD) |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics Evolutionary biology[3] |
| Institutions | University of California, San Diego University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Thesis | The statistical mechanics of polymer molecules in the solid state. (1982) |
| Doctoral advisor | Sam Edwards |
| Website | guava |
Education
editGoldenfeld was educated at the University of Cambridge.[when?]
Career and research
editGoldenfeld 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"
- ^ a b Nigel Goldenfeld publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ "NASA Astrobiology Institute for Universal Biology"
- ^ 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".