| Nigel Goldenfeld | |
| Birth Place: | St Pancras, London, England |
| Birth Name: | Nigel David Goldenfeld |
| Fields: | Physics Evolutionary biology |
| Workplaces: | University of California, San Diego University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Alma Mater: | University of Cambridge (PhD) |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Sam Edwards |
| Thesis Title: | The statistical mechanics of polymer molecules in the solid state. |
| Thesis Year: | 1982 |
| Thesis Url: | https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/t9gok8/44CAM_ALMA21428149130003606 |
Nigel David Goldenfeld (born May 1, 1957) is a Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. Preivously he worked at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he served as director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute for Universal Biology,[1] and the leader of the Biocomplexity group at Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology.
Goldenfeld was educated at the University of Cambridge.
Goldenfeld is a co-founder of Numerix and the author of the 1993 textbook "Lectures on Phase Transitions and the Renormalization Group,"[2] a widely used graduate textbook in statistical physics.
He is a Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of American Physical Society since 1995[3] and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) since 2024.[4]