Elliott Hershel Lieb#
| Membership Number: | 3835 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://web.math.princeton.edu/~lieb |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1975 Professor of Mathematics and Physics, Princeton University
- 1973 - 1974 Professor of Mathematics and Physics, MIT
- 1968 - 1973 Professor of Applied Mathematics, MIT
- 1966 - 1968 Professor of Physics, Northeastern University
- 1963 - 1966 Associate Professor of Physics, Belfer Graduate School of Science, Yeshiva University
- 1961 - 1962 Visiting Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone (on leave from IBM)
- 1960 - 1963 Staff Theoretical Physicist at International Business Machines Corporation Research Center
- 1958 - 1960 Research Associate, Cornell University
- 1957 - 1958 Research Associate, University of Illinois
- 1956 - 1957 Fulbright Fellow, Yukawa Hall, Kyoto University, Japan
Fields of Scholarship
- Condensed matter physics
- Functional analysis, spectral theory
- Mathematical physics
- Inequalities in analysis
- Statistical mechanics
Honours and Awards
- Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
- Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Member of the Royal Danish Academy
- Miembro Honorario of the Chilean Academy of Sciences
- Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Foreign Member of the Royal Society
- 1979 Honorary doctorate, University of Copenhagen
- 1995 Honorary doctorate, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne
- 2004 Honorary doctorate University of Munich
- 2007 Honorary doctorate, University of Birmingham, UK
- 1970 Boris Pregel Award in Chemical Physics of the N.Y. Academy of Sciences
- 1978 Heineman prize in Mathematical Physics of the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics
- 1988 Birkhoff prize in applied mathematics of the American Mathematical Society and the SIAM
- 1992 Max-Planck Medal of the German Physical Society
- 1998 Boltzmann medal of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics
- 1998 Onsager medal of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- 2001 Rolf Schock prize in mathematics, Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 2002 Levi L. Conant Prize of the American Mathematical Society
- 2002 Austrian Medal of Honor for Science and Art
- 2003 Poincare prize of the International Association of Mathematical Physics, and other awards
