Lawrence Paul Horwitz (born October 14, 1930) is an American/Israeli

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who has made contributions in

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classical chaos Chaos theory is an interdisciplinary area of scientific study and branch of mathematics focused on underlying patterns and deterministic laws of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions, and were once thought to have co ...

and quantum chaos, relativistic quantum mechanics,

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, representations of quantum theory on hypercomplex Hilbert modules,

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and

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and stochastic theories of irreversible quantum evolution. After obtaining his Ph.D. at

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under Julian Schwinger, he worked at the IBM Research Laboratory in Yorktown,

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until 1964. He then worked at the Department of Theoretical Physics at the University of Geneva,

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, Switzerland, until 1966, and became full professor at the Department of Physics,

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, Colorado. He has been Full Professor at the School of Physics,

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...

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. 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. He has made frequent visits, long and short term, at the

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, the Department of Theoretical Physics,

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(Geneva),

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(Storrs, Connecticut), ETH ( Honggerberg, Zurich), Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (Bures-sur-Yvette, France), and the Ilya Prigogine Center for Statistical Mechanics and Complex Systems,

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, United States.

Research and achievements

He received the Samuel F.B. Morse Medal upon graduation (

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) from

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, and was a member of

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and

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. He received a National Science Foundation Fellowship 52–53 and was a

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Fellow 56–57 at

. 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

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in 2008.

References

*W. C. Schieve
For Lawrence Horwitz on his sixty-fifth birthday.
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'', Volume 26 (1996), Number 12, pp. 1575–1578

External links

LAWRENCE P. HORWITZ, Personal web page
Tel-Aviv University
Scientific publications of Lawrence Paul Horwitz
on

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