Nigel Goldenfeld
Nigel Goldenfeld | |
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| Born | May 1, 1957 (age 66) |
| Alma mater | Cambridge University |
| Awards | Leo P. Kadanoff Prize (2020)[1] Member of US National Academy of Sciences (2010)[2] Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010) Fellow of American Physical Society (1995)[3] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics and Evolutionary Biology |
| Institutions | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Doctoral advisor | Sir Sam Edwards |
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.
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"
- ^ "APS Fellow Archive". American Physical Society. (search on year=1995 and institution=University of Illinois)
- ^ "Swanlund Endowed Chair: Nigel Goldenfeld"
- ^ "NASA Astrobiology Institute for Universal Biology"
- ^ Lawrie, Ian D. "Review of Lectures on Phase Transitions and the Renormalization Group by Nigel Goldenfeld" (PDF).
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