Michael Nielsen
- January 5, 2024
- Physicist
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Michael Nielsen Biography
| Name | Michael Nielsen |
| Birthday | Jan 4 |
| Birth Year | 1974 |
| Place Of Birth | Australia |
| Birth Country | Australia |
| Birth Sign | Capricorn |
Michael Nielsen is one of the most popular and richest Physicist who was born on January 4, 1974 in Australia, Australia. Known for a 2011 publication titled Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science, this author, physicist, and computer programmer also taught at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Ontario, Canada.
He and fellow physicist William Higinbotham both worked at New Mexico’s Los Alamos National Laboratory.
In 2004 Nielsen was characterized as Australia’s “youngest academic” and secured a Federation Fellowship at the University of Queensland; the fellowship was for five years. He worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, as the Richard Chace Tolman Prize Fellow at Caltech, and a Senior Faculty Member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Nielsen obtained his PhD in physics in 1998 at the University of New Mexico.
In 2007, Nielsen announced a marked shift in his field of research: from quantum information and computation to “the development of new tools for scientific collaboration and publication”. This work, for which he gave up a tenured academic position, includes “massively collaborative mathematics” projects like the Polymath project with Timothy Gowers. Besides writing books and essays, he has also given talks about Open Science. He was a member of the Working Group on Open Data in Science at the Open Knowledge Foundation.
A native of Australia, he later lived and worked in Canada and the United States.
Michael Nielsen Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Physicist |
| House | Living in own house. |
Michael Nielsen is one of the richest Physicist from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Michael Nielsen 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He earned a prestigious scholarship to Australia’s University of Queensland and subsequently completed a research fellowship at the California Institute of Technology. He went on to earn a PhD in physics from the University of New Mexico.
A believer in “Open Science” – a movement to make scientific concepts and research more accessible to the general public – he frequently lectured on the topic and published popular science articles.
Michael Aaron Nielsen (born January 4, 1974) is a quantum physicist, science writer, and computer programming researcher living in San Francisco.
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Michael Ranked on the list of most popular Physicist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Michael Nielsen celebrates birthday on January 4 of every year.