Awards & Winners

Leo Kadanoff

Date of Birth 14-January-1937
Place of Birth New York City
(New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Leo P Kadanoff
Profession Physicist, Scientist
Leo Philip Kadanoff is an American physicist. He is a professor of physics at the University of Chicago and a former President of the American Physical Society. He has contributed to the fields of statistical physics, chaos theory, and theoretical condensed matter physics.

Awards by Leo Kadanoff

Check all the awards nominated and won by Leo Kadanoff.

1999


National Medal of Science for Physical Science
(For fundamental theoretical research in the areas of statistical, solid state and nonlinear physics and, in particular, for the development of scaling techniques in these fields.)

1980


Wolf Prize in Physics
(for pathbreaking developments culminating in the general theory of the critical behavior at transitions between the different thermodynamic phases of matter.)