Michael Fisher Scientist

Michael Ellis Fisher (born 3 September 1931) is an English physicist, as well as chemist and mathematician, known for his many seminal contributionsto statistical physics, including but not restricted to the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena.

Personal facts

Birth dateSeptember 03, 1931
Birth place
Trinidad and Tobago
Nationality
United Kingdom
Education
King's College London
Known for
Phase transition
FKT algorithm

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Scientist

awards
NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing
Boltzmann Medal
Wolf Prize
Royal Medal
doctoral advisor
doctoral student
David Robert Nelson
Albert Jin
Daniel Styer
Graeme Milton
Field of study
Statistical physics

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Michael Fisher on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0211382
  2. http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?name=Michael%20E%2E%20Fisher&year=1995
  3. http://www.fbbva.es/TLFU/tlfu/ing/microsites/premios/fronteras/galardonados/2009/ciencias.jsp
  4. http://www.glue.umd.edu/~xpectnil
  5. http://www.sinica.edu.tw/~statphys/links/IUPAP_C3/Boltz_Award/BA1983.html
  6. http://www.wolffund.org.il/full.asp?id=105