Nigel Goldenfeld

Nigel Goldenfeld FRS
Born	Nigel David Goldenfeld May 1, 1957 (1957-05) (age 67) 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"
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".