Rodney Baxter wins 2006 Onsager Prize
Former long term member of the Department Emeritus Professor Rodney Baxter has been awarded the 2006 Onsager Prize of the American Physical Society for his original and groundbreaking contributions to the field of exactly solved models in statistical mechanics, which continue to inspire profound
developments in statistical physics and related fields
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Professor Baxter's recent verification of a longstanding conjecture for the order parameter of the chiral Potts model has featured in a Search and Discovery article in the November 2005 issue of Physics Today. Read his online letter Sorting out the Potts models in the December 2005 issue.
