Nigel Goldenfeld

Nigel Goldenfeld
Born May 1, 1957 (1957-05) (age 59)
Residence United States
Fields Physics and Evolutionary Biology
Institutions University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alma mater Cambridge University
Doctoral advisor Sir Sam Edwards
Known for Phase Transition and the Renormalization Group
Dynamics and Pattern Formation
D-Wave Superconductivity
Notable awards Member of US National Academy of Sciences (2010)[1]
Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010)
Fellow of American Physical Society (1995)

Nigel Goldenfeld (born May 1, 1957) is a Swanlund Chair,[2] Professor of Physics Department in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), the director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute for Universal Biology,[3] 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 textbook "Phase Transitions and Renormalization Group," a widely used graduate textbook in statistical physics.

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