Michael Fisher - Lars Onsager Prize

Lars Onsager Prize

Fisher won the Lars Onsager Prize in 1995 "or his numerous and seminal contributions to statistical mechanics, including but not restricted to the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena, scaling laws, critical exponents, finite size effects, and the application of the renormalization group to many of the above problems".

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