Boltzmann Medal
Jewish recipients of the Boltzmann Medal documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 41% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.
12 documented recipients
Michael Fisher1931
Chemical physicist known for statistical mechanics of critical phenomena
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Yakov Sinai1935
Dynamical systems and statistical mechanics (Abel Prize)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Leo Kadanoff1937
Physicist; block-spin scaling and the renormalization group
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Joel Lebowitz1930
Physicist; rigorous statistical mechanics
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Elliott Lieb1932
Mathematical physics; stability of matter
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Benjamin Widom1927
Physical chemist known for phase transitions and critical phenomena
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Berni Alder1925
Physical chemist, pioneer of molecular dynamics computer simulation
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
E. G. D. Cohen2004
Theorist of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics; Boltzmann Medal (2004)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Boltzmann Medal
H. Eugene Stanley2004
Physicist of phase transitions and the anomalies of water; Boltzmann Medal (2004); convert to Judaism
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Boltzmann Medal
Bernard Derrida2010
French statistical physicist of exactly solvable nonequilibrium models; Boltzmann Medal (2010)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Boltzmann Medal
Giovanni Jona-Lasinio1932
Physicist; the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model of dynamical symmetry breaking
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Daan Frenkel1948
Computational chemist known for molecular simulation of soft matter
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry