Michael Fisher | |
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| Born | Michael Ellis Fisher 3 September 1931 Fyzabad, Colony of Trinidad and Tobago |
| Died | 26 November 2021 (aged 90)[1] |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | King's College London |
| Known for | Theory of phase transitions FKT algorithm |
| Awards | Irving 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 | |
| Fields | Statistical physics |
| Institutions | King's College London Cornell University University of Maryland, College Park |
| Doctoral advisor | Donald 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]
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