Editing Sam Edwards (physicist) (section)

{{short description|Welsh physicist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}}
{{Infobox scientist
| honorific_prefix = [[Sir]]
| name =  Sam Edwards
| honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|FRS|FLSW}}
| image = SamEdwardsBetter.jpg
| image_size     = 180px
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1928|2|01|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Swansea]], Wales
| death_date = {{death date and age|2015|5|07|1928|2|01|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Cambridge]], England
| death_cause =
| nationality = Welsh
| field = Physics
| work_institution = [[University of Cambridge]]
| alma_mater =[[University of Cambridge]]<br />[[Harvard University]]
| doctoral_advisor = [[Julian Schwinger]]
| thesis_title = A new approach to the theory of renormalised fields
| thesis_year = 1954
| thesis_url = https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1mdq5o5/TN_cdi_britishlibrary_ethos_oai_ethos_bl_uk_598785
| doctoral_students = [[Elliott H. Lieb]]<br />[[Monica Olvera de la Cruz]]<br />[[Michael Cates]]<br />[[Nigel Goldenfeld]]<br/>[[Tanniemola Liverpool]]
| known_for =[[path integral formulation]]<br /> [[polymer physics]]<br />[[spin glass]]<br />[[granular material]]
| prizes = [[Maxwell Medal and Prize]] (1974)<br />[[Davy Medal]] (1984)<br />[[Boltzmann medal]] (1995)<br />[[Royal Medal]] (2001)<br />[[Dirac Medal (ICTP)|Dirac Medal]] (2005)
}}

'''Sir Samuel Frederick Edwards''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|FRS|FLSW}} (1 February 1928 – 7 May 2015) was a [[Welsh people|Welsh]] [[physicist]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Goldenfeld|first=Nigel|date=23 December 2015|title=Samuel Frederick Edwards: Founder of modern polymer and soft matter theory|journal=[[Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA|Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America]]|volume=113|issue=1|pages=10&ndash;11|doi=10.1073/pnas.1523001113|pmc=4711878|pmid=26699498|bibcode=2016PNAS..113...10G|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name="Grauniad">{{Cite news |last=Donald |first=Athene |title=The birth of soft matter physics, the physics of the everyday |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |date=12 May 2015 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/occams-corner/2015/may/12/the-birth-of-soft-matter-physics-the-physics-of-the-everyday}}</ref>
The [[Sam Edwards Medal and Prize]] is named in his honour.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iop.org/about/awards/subject/edwards/page_72444.html |title=Sam Edwards Medal and Prize |publisher=Institute of Physics |accessdate=23 December 2019}}</ref>