field, a position he remained in until September 2018. Lebowitz hosts a biannual series of conferences held, first at Yeshiva University and later at Rutgers University, which has been running for 60 years. He is also known as a co-editor of an influential review series, Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena. Awards and honors Lebowitz has been awarded several honors, such as the Boltzmann Medal (1992), the Nicholson Medal (1994) awarded by the American Physical Society, the Delmer S. Fahrney Medal (1995), the Henri Poincaré Prize (2000), the Volterra Award (2001), the Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (2021). His Heineman Prize citation reads: "For seminal contributions to nonequilibrium and equilibrium statistical mechanics, in particular, studies of large deviations in nonequilibrium steady states and rigorous analysis of Gibbs equilibrium ensembles." Among other recognitions, Lebowitz was awarded the Max Planck Medal in 2007 "for his important contributions to the statistical physics of equilibrium and non-equilibrium systems, in particular his contributions to the theory of phase transitions, the dynamics of infinite systems, and the stationary non-equilibrium states" and "for his promoting of new directions of this field at its farthest front, and for enthusiastically introducing several generations of scientists to the field." In 2014 he received the Grande Médaille of the French Academy of Sciences. In 2022 he was awarded the Dirac Medal of the ICTP. Lebowitz is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. In 1966, he became a fellow of the American Physical Society. and in 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He received an honorary Doctor of Science degree at Syracuse University's 158th Commencement in 2012. References External links Laudatio for Joel L. Lebowitz by David Ruelle (IHES, Paris) at the Poincaré Prize Ceremony (2000) 1930 births Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Living people Ukrainian Jews American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent 20th-century American mathematicians Rutgers University faculty Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences alumni Auschwitz concentration camp survivors Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Thermodynamicists Brooklyn College alumni Fellows of the American Physical Society Winners of the Max Planck Medal