Matthew P. A. Fisher

Matthew P. A. Fisher
Born (1960-05-19) 19 May 1960
London, United Kingdom
Nationality British American
Fields Condensed matter physics
Institutions University of California Santa Barbara
Alma mater University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notable awards Alan T. Waterman Award (1995)
Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (2015)
Website
www.kitp.ucsb.edu/mpaf

Matthew P. A. Fisher is a theoretical condensed matter physicist and Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. 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. 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.[1] He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.[2] He is the son of English physicist Michael E. Fisher, and brother of American physicist Daniel S. Fisher.

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