Philip Candelas
British physicist and mathematician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Philip Candelas, FRS[5] (born 24 October 1951, London, UK)[1][6] is a British physicist and mathematician.[7][8] After 20 years at the University of Texas at Austin, he served as Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford until 2020 and is a Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford.[1][9]
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Philip Candelas | |
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Born | (1951-10-24) 24 October 1951 (age 72)[1] London, England |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA) University of Oxford (DPhil) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of Oxford University of Texas at Austin |
Thesis | Quantum Gravitation (1977) |
Doctoral advisor | Dennis Sciama[2] |
Doctoral students | David Deutsch[3][4] |
Website | www |
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