Jewish Recipients of the Boltzmann Medal

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Listed below are recipients of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics' Boltzmann Medal who were, or are, Jewish or of half-Jewish descent (as noted). This prize is generally considered to be one of the two most prestigious international awards in the field of theoretical statistical mechanics.

Michael Fisher (1983)
Yakov Sinai (1986)
Leo Kadanoff (1989)
Joel Lebowitz (1992)
Elliott Lieb (1998)
Benjamin Widom (1998)
Berni Alder (2001)
E. G. D. Cohen (2004)
H. Eugene Stanley¹ (2004)
Bernard Derrida (2010)
Giovanni Jona-Lasinio² (2013)
Daan Frenkel (2016)

NOTES
1. Convert to Judaism. See, e.g., Marquis Who's Who in America: 2016.
2. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother. See "A Jew in Rome," by Richard Ellis in the April 2001 issue of Midstream.

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