Raymond Ethan Goldstein (born 1961)
FRSFInstP
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is
Schlumberger
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Professor of
Complex Physical Systems in the
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) at the
University of Cambridge
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and a Fellow of
Churchill College, Cambridge
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Education
Goldstein was educated at the
West Orange Public Schools
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and
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he graduated
Phi Beta Kappa
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with
double major
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Bachelor of Science degrees in
Physics
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and
Chemistry
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in 1983.
He continued his education at
Cornell University
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where he was awarded a Master of Science degree in Physics in 1986, followed by a PhD in 1988
for research on
phase transition
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s and
critical phenomena
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physics of critical points. Most of them stem from the divergence of the
correlation length, but also the dynamics slows down. Critical phenomena include scaling relations ...
supervised by
Neil Ashcroft
Neil William Ashcroft (27 November 1938 – 15 March 2021) was a British solid-state physicist.
Early life and education
Ashcroft was born in London on 27 November 1938, and migrated to New Zealand in 1947. He was educated at Hutt Valley High Sc ...
.
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Research
Goldstein's research[ ] focuses on understanding nonequilibrium
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phenomena
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in the natural world
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,biophysics
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European Union
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7th Framework Programme on Research & Innovation (FP7). His research has been published in leading peer review
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ed scientific journal
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Content
Articles in scientific journals are mostly written by active scientists such as s ...
s including '''',[ '']Physical Review Letters
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'',[ and the '']Journal of Fluid Mechanics
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''.[
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Career
Goldstein has held academic appointments at the University of Chicago
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, Princeton University
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and the University of Arizona
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. He was appointed Schlumberger Professor at the University of Cambridge in 2006.[
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Awards and honours
Goldstein was awarded the Stefanos Pnevmatikos International Award in 2000. He was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
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in 2002, Fellow of the Institute of Physics
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(FInstP) in 2009 and the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA) in 2010.[ With ]Joseph Keller
Joseph Bishop Keller (July 31, 1923 – September 7, 2016) was an American mathematician who specialized in applied mathematics. He was best known for his work on the "geometrical theory of diffraction" (GTD).
Early life and education
Born i ...
, Patrick B. Warren and Robin C. Ball, Goldstein was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize
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in 2012 for calculating the forces that shape and move ponytail
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hair.Batchelor Prize
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of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
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for his research into active matter fluid mechanics., and the Institute of Physics Rosalind Franklin Medal and Prize for revealing the physical basis for fluid motion in and around active cells.
Personal life
Goldstein married Argentine mathematical physicist Adriana Pesci
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.
References
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1961 births
Living people
People from West Orange, New Jersey
Cornell University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
American biophysicists
Academics of the University of Cambridge
Fellows of the Royal Society
Fellows of the Institute of Physics
Fellows of the American Physical Society