Michael Fisher
Michael Fisher · Science & Medicine
Chemical physicist known for statistical mechanics of critical phenomena
1931, Trinidad — 2021, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
United Kingdom · United States
Michael Fisher is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Chemical physicist known for statistical mechanics of critical phenomena
Fisher, a Jewish theoretical physicist, was a leading architect of the modern theory of critical phenomena and phase transitions, work central to the renormalization group. He shared the 1980 Wolf Prize in Physics with Kenneth Wilson and Leo Kadanoff, and spent his career at Cornell and the University of Maryland.
Verify and go deeper with these external references.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
This page is published in seven languages from an English source. The translations are reviewed, but a mistake can still slip through. If you spot one on this profile — a wrong word, a lost date, a sentence that says something the English does not — please tell us.
Chemical physicist known for statistical mechanics of critical phenomena
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Similar Contributors
Cyril Domb
Akiva Yaglom
Paul Ehrenfest
Benjamin Widom
Bruce Berne
