Nigel Goldenfeld
Nigel David Goldenfeld (born May 1, 1957) is a Swanlund Chair, Professor of Physics Department in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), the director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute for Universal Biology, 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," a widely used graduate textbook in statistical physics.
Nigel Goldenfeld | |
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| Born | May 1, 1957 (age 66) |
| Alma mater | Cambridge University |
| Awards | Leo P. Kadanoff Prize (2020) Member of US National Academy of Sciences (2010) Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010) Fellow of American Physical Society (1995) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics and Evolutionary Biology |
| Institutions | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Doctoral advisor | Sir Sam Edwards |
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