Lars Onsager Prize
Jewish recipients of the Lars Onsager Prize documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 43% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.
20 documented recipients
Michael Fisher1931
Chemical physicist known for statistical mechanics of critical phenomena
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Robert Kraichnan1928
Physicist; statistical theory of turbulence
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Leo Kadanoff1937
Physicist; block-spin scaling and the renormalization group
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
J. Michael Kosterlitz2016
Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter
Source: Wikipedia — J. Michael Kosterlitz
Bertrand Halperin1941
Physicist; condensed matter theory and the quantum Hall effect
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Pierre Hohenberg1934
Physicist known for the Hohenberg–Kohn theorems of density functional theory
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Valery Pokrovsky1931
Physicist; phase transitions and condensed matter theory
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
A. Brooks Harris2007
Author of the Harris criterion for disordered systems; Onsager Prize (2007)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Lars Onsager Prize
Gordon Baym1935
Theoretical physicist; many-body theory and nuclear astrophysics
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Daniel Friedan2010
Co-founder of modern conformal field theory; Onsager Prize (2010); son of Betty Friedan
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Lars Onsager Prize
Stephen Shenker1953
Physicist; string theory and matrix models
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Alexander Belavin2011
Co-author of the BPZ paper founding conformal field theory; Onsager Prize (2011)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Lars Onsager Prize
Alexander Polyakov1945
Theoretical physicist; major contributions to quantum field theory and string theory
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Daniel Fisher2013
Statistical physicist of random systems; Onsager Prize (2013); son of Michael Fisher
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Lars Onsager Prize
Grigory Volovik1946
Physicist; topological aspects of superfluids and condensed matter
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Natan Andrei2017
Solved the Kondo problem exactly via the Bethe ansatz; Onsager Prize (2017)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Lars Onsager Prize
Lev Pitaevskii2021
Co-author of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation of Bose-Einstein condensates; Onsager Prize (2021)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Lars Onsager Prize
Igor Aleiner
Physicist (condensed matter theory)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Boris Altshuler1955
Condensed matter theorist; quantum transport in disordered systems
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Jorge Kurchan2025
Statistical physicist of glassy dynamics; Onsager Prize (2025)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Lars Onsager Prize