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Michael Fisher

1931 - 2021

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Michael Ellis Fisher (3 September 1931 – 26 November 2021) was 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. He was the Horace White Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics at Cornell University. Later he moved to the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences, where he was University System of Maryland Regents Professor, a Distinguished University Professor and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Fisher is the 693rd most popular physicist (up from 713th in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Trinidad and Tobago (up from 14th in 2019) and the most popular Trinidadian Physicist. Learn more about Michael Fisher's academic impact at Rankless.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Michael Fisher ranks 693 out of 851. Before him are Edwin H. Land, John Iliopoulos, Nicholas Kurti, Bengt Edlén, Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert, and Nikolay Umov. After him are Maurice Goldhaber, Leo Kadanoff, Yoseph Imry, Burkhard Heim, John Joly, and John C. Slater.

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Among people born in 1931, Michael Fisher ranks 437. Before him are Nicola Mancino, William Deane, Bob Shaw, Václav Hovorka, Ingrid van Bergen, and D. J. Fontana. After him are Pál Várhidi, Charlie Logg, Suchitra Sen, Chuck Feeney, Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, and Ursula Donath. Among people deceased in 2021, Michael Fisher ranks 454. Before him are Henry Darrow, Fausto Gresini, Bronius Kutavičius, Tubilandu Ndimbi, Lawrence Weiner, and Franco Marini. After him are Aleksandar Shalamanov, Giuseppe Galante, Sanja Ilić, Art LaFleur, Vladimir Naumov, and Mona Malm.

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In Trinidad and Tobago

Among people born in Trinidad and Tobago, Michael Fisher ranks 12 out of 71. Before him are George Maxwell Richards (1931), Billy Ocean (1950), Paula-Mae Weekes (1958), Keith Rowley (1949), David Jenkins (1952), and Stephen Mallory (1813). After him are Imran N. Hosein (1942), A. N. R. Robinson (1926), Edmundo Ros (1910), George Padmore (1903), Steven Pressfield (1943), and C. L. R. James (1901).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Trinidad and Tobago

Among physicists born in Trinidad and Tobago, Michael Fisher ranks 1. 

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