Elliott H. Lieb

Elliott Hershel Lieb, born in Boston in 1932, is an American mathematical physicist and professor of mathematics and physics at Princeton University. He took his bachelor's degree in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1953 and his doctorate in mathematical physics at the University of Birmingham in 1956. His work covers the quantum and classical many-body problem, atomic structure, the stability of matter, functional inequalities, magnetism and the Hubbard model. With Walter Thirring he gave a short proof of the stability of matter, and the Lieb-Thirring inequality is named for them. With Mary Beth Ruskai he proved the strong subadditivity of quantum entropy, and he found sharp constants for inequalities such as the Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality. His honours include the Henri Poincare Prize, the Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences and the Gauss Prize of 2022.