Daniel S. Fisher (born November 21, 1956) is an American theoretical physicist working in

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Biography

Daniel Fisher graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics in 1975 and from Harvard University with a master's degree in physics in 1978 and a doctorate in physics in 1979 working with

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. He then worked in the theoretical department at

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until 1987. In 1987 he became a professor of physics at Princeton University and in 1990 at Harvard. In 2005 he moved to Stanford University as a professor of applied physics. Fisher initially focused on dynamics and phase transitions in disordered systems (such as glasses) and quantum dissipation in superconductors. More recently, he switched to biophysics with a wide range of research topics (including information processing in the brain, physics of biological macromolecules, and evolutionary and population dynamics). He has been a Fellow of the

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since 1986. He was a

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from 1988 to 1992. He was elected to the

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in 1999 and the

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in 2015. He received the

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in 2013. He is a son of Michael E. Fisher and brother of

Matthew P. A. Fisher Matthew P. A. Fisher is an American theoretical physicist and Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is known for several major contributions to condensed matter physics. He completed his bachelor's degree in en ...

Selected works

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External links

Homepage (Stanford)

Math Genealogy

American Physical Society
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fisher, Daniel S. 1956 births Living people American physicists Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows of the American Physical Society Stanford University faculty Princeton University faculty 20th-century physicists Cornell University alumni Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni