Nigel Goldenfeld

 ( 1957 Births ) 

Nigel David Goldenfeld (born May 1, 1957) is a Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. Previously he worked at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he served as director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute for Universal Biology, and the leader of the Biocomplexity group at Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology.

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Education Goldenfeld was educated at the University of Cambridge.

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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," 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 (search on year=1995 and institution=University of Illinois) and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) since 2024.

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