Nigel David 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
The Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) is ainterdisciplinaryfacility for genomics research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Institute was built in 2006 to centralize biotechnology research at the University o ...
. Goldenfeld is a co-founder of
Numerix
Numerix is a global financial technology company that provides capital markets software and solutions that enable clients to analyze and manage complex trade portfolios that consist of financial instruments, derivatives, and structured products. It ...
and the author of the 1993 textbook "Lectures on Phase Transitions and the Renormalization Group,"
a widely used graduate textbook in statistical physics.
References
External links
Nigel Goldenfeld, YouTube videos
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1957 births
University of Illinois faculty
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Living people
Santa Fe Institute people
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences