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Nigel Goldenfeld

Nigel Goldenfeld

British-American physicist (born 1957)

Nigel David Goldenfeld FRS (born May 1, 1957) is a Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego.[3] Preivously 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]

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Education

Goldenfeld was educated at the University of Cambridge.[when?]

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

  1. [1]
    Schwink, Siv (October 1, 2019). "Goldenfeld Receives Leo P. Kadanoff Prize of the American Physical Society". Illinois Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB).
  2. [2]
    "National Academy of Sciences: Nigel Goldenfeld"
  3. [3]
    Nigel Goldenfeld publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  4. [4]
    "NASA Astrobiology Institute for Universal Biology"
  5. [5]
    Lawrie, Ian D. "Review of Lectures on Phase Transitions and the Renormalization Group by Nigel Goldenfeld" (PDF).
  6. [6]
    "APS Fellow Archive". American Physical Society. (search on year=1995 and institution=University of Illinois)
  7. [7]
    https://royalsociety.org/news/2024/05/new-fellows-2024/
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