Back صموئيل إدواردز Arabic سام ادواردز (فيزيائى) ARZ سام ادواردز (فیزیکچی) AZB Sam Edwards Welsh Sam Edwards (Physiker) German سام ادواردز (فیزیکدان) Persian Sam Edwards (physicien) French Samuel Frederick Edwards Italian サム・エドワーズ Japanese Samuel Edwards Portuguese
Sam Edwards | |
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| Born | 1 February 1928 Swansea, Wales |
| Died | 7 May 2015 (aged 87) Cambridge, England |
| Nationality | Welsh |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge Harvard University |
| Known for | path integral formulation polymer physics spin glass granular material |
| Awards | Maxwell Medal and Prize (1974) Davy Medal (1984) Boltzmann medal (1995) Royal Medal (2001) Dirac Medal (2005) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | A new approach to the theory of renormalised fields (1954) |
| Doctoral advisor | Julian Schwinger |
| Doctoral students | Elliott H. Lieb Monica Olvera de la Cruz Michael Cates Nigel Goldenfeld Tanniemola Liverpool |
Sir Samuel Frederick Edwards FRS FLSW (1 February 1928 – 7 May 2015) was a Welsh physicist.[1][2] The Sam Edwards Medal and Prize is named in his honour.[3]
- ^ Goldenfeld, Nigel (23 December 2015). "Samuel Frederick Edwards: Founder of modern polymer and soft matter theory". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 113 (1): 10–11. Bibcode:2016PNAS..113...10G. doi:10.1073/pnas.1523001113. PMC 4711878. PMID 26699498.
- ^ Donald, Athene (12 May 2015). "The birth of soft matter physics, the physics of the everyday". The Guardian. London.
- ^ "Sam Edwards Medal and Prize". Institute of Physics. Retrieved 23 December 2019.