Thomas Fink
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Thomas Fink is an American physicist who has authored a number of journal articles on statistical and biological physics and two popular books. He is a Charge de Recherche at CNRS/Institut Curie and when not in Paris lives in England.
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[edit] Education and positions
Fink was born in Plattsburgh, New York, later moving to San Antonio, Texas. He studied physics at Caltech, where he won the annual Fisher Prize in Physics. Fink moved to England in 1994 and took his Ph.D. at St John's College, Cambridge/Theory of Condensed Matter, supervised by Robin Ball. He was a Junior Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and did a Postdoctorate at École Normale Supérieure, Paris. He now occupies his present CNRS/Institut Curie position.
[edit] Research
Fink's research focuses on biologically inspired problems in statistical mechanics, combinatorics and networks. His interests include protein design, information theory, DNA chips, boolean networks, network motifs and genetic networks.
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).
[edit] Books
The Man's Book (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2006) is a densely written and closely typeset reference book on essential information for men. It was published in late 2006 in the UK and British Commonwealth. It is a handbook of men customs, habits and pursuits and a guide to the year ahead.
The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie, (with Yong 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 [1]. It has been published in 10 languages.
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[edit] References
- ^ Buck, Gregory (2000). "Why not knot right?". Nature 403: 362. DOI:10.1038/35000270.
