12 Facts About Joel Lebowitz

Joel Lebowitz is a founding editor of the Journal of Statistical Physics and has served as president of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Joel Lebowitz is an active member of the human rights community and a co-chair of the Committee of Concerned Scientists.

Joel Lebowitz was born in 1930 to a Jewish family in Taceva, Czechoslovakia.

Joel Lebowitz earned his PhD at Syracuse University in 1956 under the supervision of Peter G Bergmann.

Joel Lebowitz then continued his research with Lars Onsager, at Yale University, where he attained a faculty position.

Joel Lebowitz moved to the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1957 and to the Belfer Graduate School of Science at Yeshiva University in New York City in 1959.

Joel Lebowitz has been one of the most active supporters of dissident scientists in the former Soviet Union, especially refusenik scientists.

Joel Lebowitz established what are now known as Lebowitz inequalities for the ferromagnetic Ising model.

Joel Lebowitz became editor-in-chief of the Journal of Statistical Physics in 1975, and held the position until September 2018.

Joel Lebowitz is known as a co-editor of an influential review series, Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena.

Joel Lebowitz is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.

Joel Lebowitz received an honorary DS degree at Syracuse University's 158th Commencement in 2012.