Nigel Goldenfeld

Nigel Goldenfeld FRS
Born	Nigel David Goldenfeld May 1, 1957 (1957-05) (age 68) St Pancras, London, England
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (PhD)
Awards	Leo P. Kadanoff Prize (2020) [1] Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2010) [2]
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	guava.physics.ucsd.edu/~nigel

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

1. Schwink, Siv (October 1, 2019). "Goldenfeld Receives Leo P. Kadanoff Prize of the American Physical Society". Illinois Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB).
2. "National Academy of Sciences: Nigel Goldenfeld"
3. Nigel Goldenfeld publications indexed by Google Scholar
4. ""NASA Astrobiology Institute for Universal Biology"". Archived from the original on 2016-04-02. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
5. Lawrie, Ian D. "Review of Lectures on Phase Transitions and the Renormalization Group by Nigel Goldenfeld" (PDF).
6. "APS Fellow Archive". American Physical Society. (search on year=1995 and institution=University of Illinois)
7. "Outstanding scientists elected as Fellows of the Royal Society | Royal Society".