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Nigel Goldenfeld
British-American physicist (born 1957)
Nigel David Goldenfeld (born May 1, 1957) is a Swanlund Chair,[4] Professor of Physics Department in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), the director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute for Universal Biology,[5] and the leader of the Biocomplexity group at Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology. Goldenfeld is a co-founder of Numerix and the author of the 1993 textbook "Lectures on Phase Transitions and the Renormalization Group,"[6] a widely used graduate textbook in statistical physics.