- Elliott H. Lieb
Elliott H. Lieb (born 1932 in
Boston ) is an eminent Americanmathematical physicist and professor ofmathematics andphysics atPrinceton University who specializes instatistical mechanics , condensed matter theory, andfunctional analysis . [His work in functional analysis is in the context of its relation toquantum mechanics within mathematical physics.] In particular, his scientific works pertain to:statistical mechanics (e.g., Bosegas sources), the quantum and classical many-body problem, the stability ofmatter ,atomic structure , the theory ofmagnetism , and theHubbard model .He is a prolific author in mathematics and physics with over 300 publications. He received his B.S. in physics from
MIT (1953) and hisPh.D. in mathematical physics from theUniversity of Birmingham inEngland (1956). Lieb was a (1956–1957)Fulbright Fellow atKyoto University ,Japan and for some time worked as the Staff Theoretical Physicist forIBM .He has been a professor at Princeton since 1975, following a leave from his professorship at MIT. Lieb has been awarded several prizes in mathematics and physics, including the 1978 Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics of the
American Physical Society and theAmerican Institute of Physics (1978), theMax Planck Medal of the German Physical Society (1992), theBoltzmann medal of theInternational Union of Pure and Applied Physics (1998), theSchock Prize (2001), and thePoincaré Prize of theInternational Association of Mathematical Physics (2003). He is a member of theU.S. National Academy of Sciences and has twice served (1982–1984 and 1997–1999) as the President of the International Association of Mathematical Physics.His
Erdős number is 2. He is married to fellow Princeton professorChristiane Fellbaum .References
* [http://www.math.princeton.edu/~lieb/ Faculty page] at Princeton.
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