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May 19, 1960 London 63 years old
American physicist
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About Matthew P. A. Fisher
- Matthew P.
- A.
- Fisher is an American theoretical physicist and Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is known for several major contributions to condensed matter physics.
- He completed his bachelor's degree in engineering physics from Cornell University in 1981 and earned a Ph.D.
- in theoretical physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1986 with Anthony Leggett as his advisor, with part of his work done under the supervision of Eduardo Fradkin.
- He was awarded the Alan T.
- Waterman Award in 1995, and in 2015 he was a recipient of the Oliver E.
- Buckley Condensed Matter Prize for his work on the superconductor-insulator transition.
- He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003 and to the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.
- He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
- He is the son of English physicist Michael E.
- Fisher, and brother of American physicist Daniel S.
- Fisher.
