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