Michael Fisher

Michael Fisher
Born
Michael Ellis Fisher

(1931-09-03)3 September 1931
Fyzabad, Colony of Trinidad and Tobago
Died26 November 2021(2021-11-26) (aged 90)[1]
NationalityBritish
Alma materKing's College London
Known forTheory of phase transitions
FKT algorithm
AwardsIrving Langmuir Award (1971)
Wolf Prize (1980)
Boltzmann Medal (1983)
NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing (1983)
Lars Onsager Prize (1995)
Royal Medal (2005)
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2009)
Scientific career
FieldsStatistical physics
InstitutionsKing's College London
Cornell University
University of Maryland, College Park
Doctoral advisorDonald MacCrimmon MacKay
Doctoral students

Michael Ellis Fisher (3 September 1931 – 26 November 2021) was an English physicist, as well as chemist and mathematician, known for his many seminal contributions to statistical physics, including but not restricted to the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena. He was the Horace White Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics at Cornell University.[2] Later he moved to the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences, where he was University System of Maryland Regents Professor, a Distinguished University Professor and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher.[1]

  1. ^ a b Suplee, Anne (29 April 2020). "Michael E. Fisher, 1931-2021". UMD Physics. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
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