Michael Fisher

Michael Ellis Fisher (born 3 September 1931) is an English physicist, as well as chemist and mathematician, known for his many seminal contributions to statistical physics, including but not restricted to the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena.

Award and honours

• Irving Langmuir Prize of the American Chemical Society (1971)
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1979
• Wolf Prize (1980)
• Boltzmann Medal of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (1983)
• NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing of the National Academy of Sciences (1983)
• Lars Onsager Prize of American Physical Society (1995)
• Royal Medal in physics (2005)
• 2009 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences (co-winner with Richard Zare)
• 2015 Rudranath Capildeo Prize for Applied Sciences and Technology-Gold, awarded by the Trinidad and Tobago's *National Institute of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology (NIHERST)