Joel Lebowitz
Joel L. Lebowitz (born May 10, 1930 in Taceva) is a mathematical physicist widely acknowledged for his outstanding contributions to statistical physics, statistical mechanics and many other fields of Mathematics and Physics. He has been awarded several honors, such as the Boltzmann Medal (1992), the Henri Poincaré Prize (2000), the Nicholson Medal (1994) awarded by the American Physical Society, the Delmer s. Fahrney Medal (1995), the Volterra Award (2001), Max Planck Medal (2007), and many others.
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, and is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.
