Joel Lebowitz

Joel L. Lebowitz (born May 10, 1930) is a Ukrainian-born American mathematical physicist. He is known for his outstanding works to statistical physics, statistical mechanics and many other fields of Mathematics and Physics. He was born in Tiachiv, Ukraine.

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. He survived the Holocaust and was sent to Auschwitz. 

He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society , retrieved 2013-01-27.

References

Other websites
His home page
Statistical Mechanics Meeting
The laudatio for Joel L. Lebowitz held by David Ruelle
The Boltzmann Award 1992 

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