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Joel Lebowitz

Date of Birth 10-May-1930
Place of Birth Czechoslovakia
(Central Europe)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Joel L Lebowitz, Joel L. Lebowitz
Profession Mathematician
Joel L. Lebowitz is a mathematical physicist widely acknowledged for his outstanding contributions to statistical physics, statistical mechanics and many other fields of Mathematics and Physics. Lebowitz has published more than five hundred papers concerning statistical physics and science in general, and he is one of the founders and editors of the Journal of Statistical Physics, one of the most important journal concerning the scientific research in this area. He has been president of the New York Academy of Sciences. Lebowitz is the George William Hill Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Rutgers University. He is also an active member of the human rights community and a long-term co-Chair of the Committee of Concerned Scientists.

Awards by Joel Lebowitz

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2007


Max Planck Medal
(For his important contributions to the statistical physics of equilibrium and non-equilibrium systems, in particular his contributions to the theory of phase transitions, the dynamics of infinite systems, and the stationary non-equilibrium states and for his promoting of new directions of this field at its farthest front, and for enthusiastically introducing several generations of scientists to the field.)