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Michael Elmhirst Cates (born 5 May 1961) is a British physicist. He is the 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and has held this position since 1 July 2015. He was previously professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, and held a Royal Society Research Professorship from 2007 to 2022.
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TTTA extracted 18 structured relationships around Michael Cates. Examples in this analysis include Michael Cates → Born → Michael Elmhirst Cates (1961-05-05) 5 May 1961 (age 65) Bristol, England and Michael Cates → Citizenship → United Kingdom. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
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| Michael Cates | Born | Michael Elmhirst Cates (1961-05-05) 5 May 1961 (age 65) Bristol, England | 1.00 | infobox |
| Michael Cates | Citizenship | United Kingdom | 1.00 | infobox |
| Michael Cates | Doctoral advisor | Sir Sam Edwards | 1.00 | infobox |
| Michael Cates | Education | Trinity College, Cambridge (PhD) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Michael Cates | Fields | Physics Soft matter | 1.00 | infobox |
| Michael Cates | Thesis | The statistical mechanics of complex polymers (1985) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Michael Cates | Workplaces | University of Cambridge University of Edinburgh | 1.00 | infobox |
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| interfacial fluctuations | instance of | including phenomena | 0.80 | text |
| and wetting.At Edinburgh | instance of | including phenomena | 0.80 | text |
| Cates was the principal investigator of an EPSRC Programme Grant | instance of | including phenomena | 0.80 | text |
| awarded in 2011 | instance of | including phenomena | 0.80 | text |
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Source: Wikipedia — Michael Cates · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout