Lawrence Paul Horwitz

Horwitz Lawrence Paul was born in the USA on October 14, 1930. He is an American Physicist and Mathematician. After obtaining his Ph.D. at Harvard University under Julian Schwinger, he worked at the IBM Research Laboratory in Yorktown, N.Y. until 1964. He then worked at the Department of Theoretical Physics at the University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland until 1966, and became full professor at the Department of Physics, University of Denver, Denver CO.

He has been Full Professor at the School of Physics, Tel Aviv University since 1972 (Professor Emeritus since 1998), and teaching externally as well at Bar Ilan University from 1990. He has been participating as well in research at the Ariel University Center of Samaria, Ariel, Israel.

He has made frequent visits, long and short term, at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, the Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva, CERN (Geneva), University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT), ETH (Honggerberg, Zurich), Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (Bures-sur-Yvette, France), and the Ilya Prigogine Center for Statistical Mechanics and Complex Systems, University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Memberships

He is a member of the American Physical Society (Particle Physics), the Swiss Physical Society, the European Physical Society, the Israel Mathematical Union, the European Mathematical Society, the International Association for Mathematical Physics, the Israel Physical Society, the International Quantum Structures Association, the International Association for Relativistic Dynamics, and the Association of Members of the Institute for Advanced Study (from 1990).

He has been on the editorial and advisory boards and standing committees for several conferences on mathematical and theoretical physics and journals, and on the Panel of Assessors ARC, Australian National Funding DEET.

Research and achievements

He received the Samuel F.B. Morse Medal upon graduation (summa cum laude) from NYU, and was a member of Sigma Pi Sigma and Tau Beta Pi. He received a Nationl Science Foundation Fellowship 52-53 and was a Shell Oil Fellow 56-57 at Harvard University. Three issues of Foundations of Physics were dedicated to him on the occasion of his 65 birthday [Foundations of Physics 26 (1996)1575-1739, 27(1997) 1-134, and 27(1997) 135-332]. He received an Outstanding Referee Award from the American Physical Society in 2008, and a Gold Medal from the Telesio-Galilei Association in 2008 for his work in theoretical physics.

Contributions

Horwitz has made contributions in: Particle physics, statistical mechanics, mathematical physics, theory of unstable systems, classical and quantum chaos, relativistic quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, general relativity, representations of quantum theory on hypercomplex Hilbert modules, group theory and functional analysis, and stochastic theories of irreversible quantum evolution.