Daniel S. Fisher
Daniel S. Fisher (born November 21, 1956 ) is an American theoretical physicist who deals with statistical mechanics .
Daniel Fisher studied at Cornell University with a bachelor's degree in 1975 and at Harvard University with a master's degree in 1978 and his doctorate in 1979 with Bertrand Halperin . He then worked in the theoretical department of Bell Laboratories until 1987 . In 1987 he became professor of physics at Princeton University and in 1990 at Harvard. In 2005 he moved to Stanford University as Professor of Applied Physics.
Fisher initially dealt in particular with dynamics and phase transitions in disordered systems (such as glasses) and quantum dissipation in superconductors. Recently he switched to biophysics with a wide range of research topics (from information processing in the brain, physics of biological macromolecules, evolutionary and population dynamics to biological clocks).
He received the Lars Onsager Prize for 2013. From 1988 to 1992 he was a Sloan Research Fellow . He is a fellow of the American Physical Society . He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999 and to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.
He is a son of Michael E. Fisher and brother of Matthew PA Fisher .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Daniel S. Fisher in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ↑ Harvard Magazine to Fisher
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| SURNAME | Fisher, Daniel S. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1956 |