Elliott H. Lieb
Physicist, Academic
1932 –
Who is Elliott H. Lieb?
Elliott Hershel Lieb is an American mathematical physicist and professor of mathematics and physics at Princeton University who specializes in statistical mechanics, condensed matter theory, and functional analysis.
In particular, his scientific works pertain to: the quantum and classical many-body problem, the stability of matter, atomic structure, the theory of magnetism, and the Hubbard model.
He is a prolific author in mathematics and physics with over 300 publications. He received his B.S. in physics from MIT and his Ph.D. in mathematical physics from the University of Birmingham in England. Lieb was a Fulbright Fellow at Kyoto University, Japan and for some time worked as the Staff Theoretical Physicist for IBM.
He has been a professor at Princeton since 1975, following a leave from his professorship at MIT.
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- Born
- Jul 31, 1932
Boston - Also known as
- Elliott H Lieb
- Elliott Hershel Lieb
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics
( - 1953) - PhD, University of Birmingham
Mathematical physics
( - 1956)
- Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Employment
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Princeton University
- Lived in
- Princeton
(1975 - )
- Princeton
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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