Nigel Goldenfeld
- Leo P. Kadanoff Prize (2020)[1]
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2010)[2]
Evolutionary biology[3]
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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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] 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]
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
- ^ 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)
- ^ https://royalsociety.org/news/2024/05/new-fellows-2024/ [bare URL]
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