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Nigel Goldenfeld
Born
Nigel David Goldenfeld

May 1, 1957 (1957-05) (age 67)
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (PhD)
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Evolutionary biology[3]
InstitutionsUniversity of California, San Diego
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ThesisThe statistical mechanics of polymer molecules in the solid state. (1982)
Doctoral advisorSam Edwards
Websiteguava.physics.ucsd.edu/~nigel Edit this at Wikidata

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]

Education

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

Career and research

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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]

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