Biography:Sidney R. Nagel
Sidney R. Nagel is an American scientist and academic based at the University of Chicago, focusing on complex everyday physics such as "the anomalous flow of granular material, the long messy tendrils left by honey spooned from one dish to another, the pesky rings deposited by spilled coffee on a table after the liquid evaporates or the common splash of a drop of liquid onto a countertop."[1] His work includes high-speed photography of splashing liquids and drop formation. Nagel was born September 28, 1948 in New York City ,[2] the son of Ernest Nagel and brother of mathematician Alexander Nagel. His academic career began as a Research Associate at Brown University in 1974, and from there he went in 1976 to the University of Chicago, becoming a full professor in 1984, and gaining his present position in 2001.[2]
Education
- BA Columbia University 1969
- MA Princeton University 1971
- PhD Princeton University 1974[2]
Honors[3]
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1979–81
- Fellow, American Physical Society, 1988
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1993
- Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 1996
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1997
- Louis Block Professor, 1998
- Klopsteg Memorial Award, American Association of Physics Teachers, 1998
- Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize, American Physical Society, 1999
- Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor, 2001
- Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2003
Publications
Some 26 papers are available via Cornell University Library.[4]
See also
- Granular convection
- Jamming
- National Academy of Sciences
References
- ↑ Home page of the Nagel Group of the University of Chicago, accessed March 10, 2012
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Array of Contemporary American Physicists Sidney Nagel
- ↑ University of Chicago Nagel honors, accessed March 10, 2012
- ↑ Physics Archive: Nagel
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