Philip Nelson (physicist)

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Philip Charles Nelson (born November 22, 1957 in Kansas City ) is an American theoretical physicist.

Nelson studied physics at Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in 1980, received a mathematics degree from Cambridge University in 1981 and a master's degree from Harvard University in 1983 , where he did his doctorate in 1984 with Sidney Coleman ( Global conflicts ). From 1984 to 1987 he was a Junior Fellow at Harvard. In 1987 he became an Assistant Professor at Boston University and an Assistant Professor in 1988, Associate Professor in 1991 and Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1998 . There he has also been a member of the Institute of Medicine and Engineering since 1998 .

He was a visiting scientist at the Weizmann Institute in 2000 and at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara in 1984 and 1994.

After initially dealing with string theory and related theories ( supergravity , supersymmetry , conformal field theories , topology of anomalies in quantum field theory ) and the geometric methods used, he later turned to topics in biophysics , such as the topology and elasticity of DNA , dynamic pattern formation , molecular motors or the statistical mechanics of biological membranes.

From 1988 to 1991 he was a Sloan Research Fellow . In 2003 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 2009 he received the Emily Gray Prize from the Biophysical Society .

Fonts

  • Biological Physics: Energy, Information, Life. WH Freeman, 2004.
  • Lectures on Strings and Moduli Space. In: Phys. Reports. 149, 1987, p. 337.

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  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Nelson, Philip
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nelson, Philip Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Kansas City