Nigel Goldenfeld
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| Nigel Goldenfeld | |
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| Born | May 1, 1957 (age 67) |
| 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 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.
