Daniel S. Fisher (born November 21, 1956) is an American theoretical physicist working in
statistical physics
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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
Bertrand Halperin
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Biography
Halperin was born in Brooklyn, New York, ...
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He then worked in the theoretical department at
Bell Labs
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then AT&T Bell Laboratories (1984–1996)
and Bell Labs Innovations (1996–2007),
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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
American Physical Society
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since 1986.
He was a
Sloan Research Fellow
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from 1988 to 1992. He was elected to the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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in 1999 and the
National Academy of Sciences
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in 2015. He received the
Lars Onsager Prize
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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 ...
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External links
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German Wikipedia
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References
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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