Sidney Robert Nagel is an American physicist and the Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor at the

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, where he is affiliated with the Department of Physics, the

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, and the

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. His research focuses on complex everyday physics such as "the anomalous flow of granular material, the long messy tendrils left by honey spooned from one dish to another, the pesky rings deposited by spilled coffee on a table after the liquid evaporates or the common splash of a drop of liquid onto a countertop." His work includes high-speed photography of splashing liquids and drop formation. Nagel was born September 28, 1948 in

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,Array of Contemporary American Physicists
Sidney Nagel the son of

Ernest Nagel Ernest Nagel (November 16, 1901 – September 20, 1985) was an American philosopher of science. Suppes, Patrick (1999)Biographical memoir of Ernest Nagel In '' American National Biograph''y (Vol. 16, pp. 216-218). New York: Oxford University Pr ...

and brother of mathematician

Alexander Nagel Alexander Joseph Nagel (born 13 September 1945 in New York City) is an American mathematician, specializing in harmonic analysis, functions of several complex variables, and linear partial differential equations. Biography He received in 1966 ...

. His academic career began as a research associate at

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in 1974, and from there he went in 1976 to the University of Chicago, becoming a full professor in 1984, and gaining his present position in 2001.

Education

Nagel graduated with a B.A. from

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in 1969. He then received a

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in physics from

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in 1975 after completing a doctoral dissertation, titled "Infrared properties of metals and wavevector dependent local field effects", under the supervision of Stephen E. Schnatterly.

Honors

*Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1979–81 *Fellow,

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, 1988 *Fellow,

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, 1993 *Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 1996 *

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, 1997 *Louis Block Professor, 1998 *

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, American Association of Physics Teachers, 1998 *

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, American Physical Society, 1999 *Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor, 2001 *Member,

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, 2003 *Member,

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, 2020 *APS Medal,

, 2023

Publications

Some 26 papers are available via Cornell University Library.Physics Archive: Nagel
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nagel, Sidney R. 21st-century American physicists 1948 births Living people Columbia College (New York) alumni University of Chicago faculty Members of the American Philosophical Society Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize winners Brown University alumni Fellows of the American Physical Society

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