Sidney Redner (born 1951) is a

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-born physicist, professor, and a resident faculty member at the

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. He was formerly department chair of

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. Redner has published over 200 journal articles, authored a book titled ''A Guide to First-Passage Processes'' (2001, ), and coauthored a book titled ''A Kinetic View of Statistical Physics'' (2010, ) with Pavel L. Krapivsky and Eli Ben-Naim. His research focuses mainly on non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and network structure. He received his

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in physics from the

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in 1977 under Gene Stanley, also on faculty at Boston University. He was awarded the American Physical Society's

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for 2021.

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1951 births Living people Jewish American scientists Boston University faculty MIT Department of Physics alumni Probability theorists 21st-century American physicists Santa Fe Institute people 21st-century American Jews Statistical physicists Fellows of the American Physical Society {{US-physicist-stub