Philip Candelas, Federal Reserve System is a British physicist and mathematician and a fellow of Royal Society.
Education
Candelas studied at Christ"s College, Cambridge from 1970 and at Wadham College, Oxford, where he was a student of Dennis Sciama, from 1972, receiving his bachelor"s degree in 1973. In 1977 he received his Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford with his dissertation Quantum Gravity.
Career
From 1975 he was a research fellow at Balliol College, Oxford, and in 1976-1977 was at the University of Texas at Austin with John Archibald Wheeler. He then continued at the University of Texas, where he became an assistant professor in 1977, associate professor in 1983, and full professor in 1989. He was at the Institute for Advanced Study from 1993 to 1994, a visiting scientist at European Organization of Nuclear Research from 1991 to 1993 and a visiting professor at Princeton University in 1995.
He has been the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at Oxford since 1999 and is also the Head of the Mathematical Physics Group at Oxford.