Michael Cates
Michael "Mike" Elmhirst Cates (born May 5, 1961 in Bristol ) is a British theoretical solid-state physicist who deals with the statistical mechanics of soft matter . Since 2015 he has held the prestigious Lucasian Chair in Mathematics at Cambridge University .
Life
Cates received his PhD in 1985 from Cambridge University ( Trinity College ) with Samuel Edwards . After a period as a post-doctoral student in the USA, he was a Cambridge Research Fellow and Lecturer . He has been Professor of Theoretical Physics ( Natural Philosophy ) at the University of Edinburgh since 1995 . He has held a Royal Society Research Professorship since 2007.
In 2009 he received the Dirac Medal (IOP) for pioneering work in the field of soft matter and especially its flow behavior . In the same year he received the gold medal from the British Society of Rheology. In 2011 he received the Pierre Gilles de Gennes Lecture Prize from the European Physics Journal. For 2016 he was awarded the Bingham Medal .
In 2004 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and in 2007 of the Royal Society . In 2019, Cates was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering .
Fonts
- with Paul Bartlett, Wilson CK Poon (Editor) Colloids, grains and dense suspensions: under flow and under arrest , The Royal Society, 2009
- with Martin Evans (editor) Soft and fragile matter: nonequilibrium dynamics, metastability, and flow (Proc. 53. Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics, St. Andrews 1999), Institute of Physics Publ., 2000
Web links
- Homepage (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cates, Michael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cates, Michael Elmhirst (full name); Cates, Mike (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bristol |