Michael Fisher

Michael Ellis Fisher (born 3 September 1931) is an English physicist, as well as chemist and mathematician, known for his many seminal contributions to statistical physics, including but not restricted to the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena.

Academic background

Michael E. Fisher received his BSc from King's College London, where he also earned a PhD in physics in 1957. He was appointed to the faculty as a lecturer the following year, becoming a full professor in 1965. In 1966 he moved to Cornell University where he became professor of chemistry, physics, and mathematics, chairing the chemistry department from 1975 to 1978. In 1971, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1973, he and Jack Kiefer were the first two Cornell faculty elected as Horace White Professors. Fisher was elected Secretary of the Cornell University Senate. In 1983, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences, chemistry section. Since 1987 he has been at the Institute for Physical Science and Technology at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Michael Fisher (bishop)

Brother Michael SSF (Michael Fisher; legal name Reginald Lindsay Fisher; 6 April 1918 – 5 December 2003) was the second Bishop of St Germans in the modern era.

Early life and education

Fisher was born on 6 April 1918 in Streatham, County of London, England. He was educated in Clapham.

In 1978, he was awarded a Lambeth MA.

Religious life

Fisher entered the Society of Saint Francis (SSF) in 1944 and took Michael as his religious name.

Ordained ministry

Fisher was Ordained in 1954 after a period of study at Westcott House, Cambridge he worked initially with the Student Christian Movement and was then successively Guardian of Alnmouth Friary, Minister of the Anglican Franciscans, and General Secretary of the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (USPG).

Fisher was consecrated a suffragan bishop in 1979. For a brief period he deputised for the Bishop of Truro when Graham Leonard was translated to be the Bishop of London. He retired in 1985, serving subsequently as Minister General of the Society of St Francis.

Michael Fisher (disambiguation)

Michael Fisher (born 1931) is an English physicist

Michael Fisher or Mike Fisher may also refer to:

Michael Fisher (lawyer)

Michael Fisher (30 October 1946 – 7 January 2015) was a British solicitor, best known for his work representing those accused of terrorist offences during The Troubles in Northern Ireland.

References

List of The Passage characters

The following is a catalogue of characters from The Passage, a series of novels by author Justin Cronin. This series currently consists of The Passage, published in 2010, and The Twelve, published in 2012.

Main Character

Amy Harper Bellafonte

aka "The Girl From Nowhere". Amy is the daughter of Bill Reynolds and Jeanette Bellafonte. Her mother abandons her at a convent, where she forms a bond with one of the nuns, Sister Lacey Antoinette Kudoto. Amy is quickly targeted as a test subject by the secret government program known as Project Noah, and is subsequently kidnapped by Bradford Wolgast and Philip Doyle, but they eventually decide to turn themselves in to save her. However, Richards manages to kidnap all three of them and Amy is given the final, refined version of the virus.