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Authorised form of nameFisher; Michael Ellis (1931 - 2021)
Dates1931 - 2021
NationalityBritish
Place of birthFyzabad, Trinidad, West Indies
Date of birth3 September 1931
Date of death26 November 2021
Research fieldTheoretical Physics
ActivityEducation:
B.Sc.Physics, King's College London (1951); Ph.D in 1957;
Career:
Royal Air force; Professorship in Physics, (1965);
Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Science (1983); Fellow of the American Philosophical Society (1993);
American Physical Society awarded the Irving Langmuir Prize (1970; Wolf Prize in Physics shared with Ken Wilson and Leo Kadanoff (1980);
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election18/03/1971
Age at election39
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
Council: 1993-1995; VP 1993-1995
Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 2005
Lectures:
Bakerian 1979
CodeNA4407
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1971/07Fisher, Michael Ellis: certificate of election to the Royal Society18 March 1971
IM/GA/GRS/5895Fisher, Michael Ellisnd
IM/001422Fisher, Michael Ellis1984
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