Philip Candelas

Philip Candelas
Born (1951-10-24) 24 October 1951
London, England
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA)
University of Oxford (DPhil)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
University of Texas at Austin
ThesisQuantum Gravitation (1977)
Doctoral advisorDennis Sciama
Websitewww.maths.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/philip.candelas

Philip Candelas, FRS (born 24 October 1951, London, UK) is a British physicist and mathematician. After 20 years at the University of Texas at Austin, he served as Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford until 2020 and is a Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford.