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Doctoral advisor
  
Residence
  
United States of America

Alma mater
  
University of Cambridge

Academic advisor
  
Sam Edwards

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Born
  
May 1, 1957 (age 59) (
1957-05
)

Institutions
  
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Known for
  
Phase Transition and the Renormalization GroupDynamics and Pattern FormationD-Wave Superconductivity

Notable awards
  
Member of US National Academy of Sciences (2010)Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010)Fellow of American Physical Society (1995)

Books
  
Lectures On Phase Transitions And The Renormalization Group

Fields
  
Physics, Evolutionary biology

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Nigel Goldenfeld (born May 1, 1957) is a Swanlund Chair, Professor of Physics Department in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), the director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute for Universal Biology, 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.

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Nigel Goldenfeld Wikipedia