Joel Lebowitz

Joel Lebowitz
Lebowitz at Oberwolfach, 2004
Born	(1930-05-10)May 10, 1930 Tiachiv, Czechoslovakia (now Ukraine)
Citizenship	American
Alma mater	Brooklyn College Syracuse University
Known for	Statistical Physics Statistical mechanics
Awards	Boltzmann Medal (1992) Henri Poincaré Prize (2000) Max Planck Medal (2007) Grande Médaille (2014) Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (2021) Dirac Medal (ICTP) (2022)
Scientific career
Institutions	Rutgers University Yeshiva University Stevens Institute of Technology Yale University
Thesis	Statistical Mechanics of Nonequilibrium Processes. (1956)
Doctoral advisor	Peter G. Bergmann
Other academic advisors	Lars Onsager
Doctoral students	Michael Aizenman Sheldon Goldstein
Other notable students	de:Detlef Dürr
Website	cmsr.rutgers.edu/people-cmsr/joel-lebowitz

Joel Louis Lebowitz (born May 10, 1930) is a mathematical physicist widely acknowledged for his outstanding contributions to statistical physics, statistical mechanics and many other fields of Mathematics and Physics.^[1]

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 peer-reviewed journals concerning 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.^[2]