Association for the Advancement of Science. During the last decade, he has received the Quantrell Award (for excellence in teaching) from the University of Chicago, the Centennial Medal of Harvard University, the Lars Onsager Prize of the American Physical Society, and the Grande Medaille d'Or of the Académie des sciences de l'Institut de France. His textbook with Gordon Baym, Quantum Statistical Mechanics (), is a prominent text in the field and has been widely translated. With Leo Irakliotis, Kadanoff established the Center for Presentation of Science at the University of Chicago. In June 2013, it was stated that anonymous donors had provided a $3.5 million gift to establish the Leo Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics at the University of Chicago. He died after complications from an illness on October 26, 2015. In 2018 the American Physical Society established the Leo P. Kadanoff Prize in his honor. Publications (selection) "Scaling laws for Ising models near ", Physics 2(263), 1966. (The seminal paper for the development of renormalization group theory; see History of renormalization group theory.) "Operator Algebra and the Determination of Critical Indices", Phys. Rev. Lett. 23(1430), 1969. (The seminal paper for the development of conformal field theory; see History of conformal field theory.) References External links "Leo P. Kadanoff" at the University of Chicago "Publications of Leo P. Kadanoff" Video of Leo Kadanoff on the opening panel at the Quantum to Cosmos festival 1937 births 2015 deaths Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows of the American Physical Society Lorentz Medal winners Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences National Medal of Science laureates Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize winners Wolf Prize in Physics laureates Jewish American scientists Jewish physicists Harvard University alumni University of Chicago faculty 21st-century American physicists 20th-century American physicists Brown University faculty Members of the American Philosophical Society Presidents of the American Physical Society Statistical physicists