Joel Lebowitz

Joel Louis Lebowitz ( born May 10, 1930 in Taceva, Czechoslovakia, now Ukraine) is an American physicist. His area of ​​research is the statistical physics.

Life

Lebowitz was born in the then part of the Czech Republic Taceva. During World War II he was deported with his family because of his Jewish origins to the concentration camp Auschwitz- Birkenau, where in 1944 his parents and sister died. Joel survived and went to the war in the United States. There he attended a Jewish school and studied at Brooklyn College (1952 BS) and Syracuse University (1955 MS). His Ph. D. he made in 1956 with Peter Bergmann. As a postdoctoral fellow, he worked first with Lars Onsager at Yale, then from 1957 at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken. In 1959 he became a professor at Yeshiva University. Since 1977 he is a member of Rutgers University.

For his achievements in physics Lebowitz received 1992 Boltzmann Medal of the IUPAP, 1993 Max Planck Research Award (jointly with Herbert Spohn, University of Munich ), 2000 the Henri Poincaré Prize, in 2001 the Volterra Award and 2007, the Max - Planck medal of the DPG.

Lebowitz is also involved actively for human rights. Among other things, he supported persecuted scientists in the Soviet Union. For this commitment, he received the 1994 Nicholson Medal of the American Physical Society.

Furthermore, Lebowitz is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and was temporarily President of the New York Academy of Sciences. He was in 1975 one of the founders of the Journal of Statistical Physics. Joel Lebowitz along with Cyril Domb editor of the book series known phase transitions: Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Lebowitz married on June 21, 1953 Estelle Mandelbaum († December 1996) and on 3 June 1999 Ann Keay Beneduce.

Work

Lebowitz is considered one of the most influential researchers in the field of statistical physics. His works include methods for calculating the thermodynamic limit a variety of systems (especially in terms of Coulomb interaction ) and work on phase transitions, the Ising and Hubbard models, nonequilibrium thermodynamics, heat conduction equations and hydrodynamics.

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