- Thomas Fink
Thomas Fink is an American
physicist who has authored a number of journal articles on statistical and biologicalphysics and two popular books. He is a Chargé de Recherche atCNRS /Institut Curie and when not in Paris lives inLondon .Education and positions
Fink was born in Plattsburgh, New York. He studied physics at
Caltech , where he won the annual Fisher Prize in Physics, and atSt John's College, Cambridge /Theory of Condensed Matter , where he was supervised byRobin Ball . He was a JuniorFellow atGonville and Caius College, Cambridge and did aPostdoctorate atÉcole Normale Supérieure , Paris. He now occupies his present CNRS position.Research
Fink's research focuses on discrete dynamics, networks and biologically inspired problems in
statistical mechanics .Selected Papers
*Thomas M. A. Fink and Robin C. Ball, 'How Many Conformations Can a Protein Remember?', Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 198103 (2001).
*Thomas M. Fink and Yong Mao, 'Designing Tie Knots by Random Walks', Nature, 398, 31 (1999).
*B. T. Werner and T. M. Fink, 'Beach Cusps as Self-Organized Patterns', Science 260, 968 (1993).Books
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The Man's Book " (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2006; Orion, 2007) is is a handbook of men customs, habits and pursuits, similar toThe Dangerous Book for Boys , but for men.It was first published in late 2006 in the UK and British Commonwealth.A second edition, revised and updated, was published in autumn 2007 in the UK, with translations in German, Italian, Russian and other languages."
The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie ", (withYong Mao , Fourth Estate, London, 1999) is a cultural, historical and mathematical examination of ties and tie knots.The book includes a layman's account of the authors' mathematical papers which derived all possible knots capable of being tied with a standard necktie [cite journal | last = Buck | first = Gregory | year = 2000 | title = Why not knot right? | journal = Nature | volume = 403 | pages = 362 | doi = 10.1038/35000270] .It has been published in 10 languages.External links
* [http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~tmf20/ Thomas Fink's homepage]
* [http://isbndb.com/d/person/fink_thomas.html Thomas Fink's Bibliography on ISBNdb]References
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