WCAI-90.1 FM (NPR; Woods Hole, Mass., Oct. 14) -- Nigel Goldenfeld sees patterns everywhere in the natural world. The physicist from Illinois is a member of its top-ranked Condensed Matter Theory group, and studies how patterns evolve in time, “be they snowflakes, the microstructures of materials, the turbulent flow of fluids, geological formations or even the spatial organization of microbes.”