Michael Aizenman

Michael Aizenman, born on 28 August 1945, is an American-Israeli mathematician and physicist at Princeton University who works in mathematical physics, statistical mechanics, functional analysis and probability theory. He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and took his doctorate in 1975 at Yeshiva University, then held posts at the Courant Institute, Princeton, Rutgers and again Princeton. His results include the triviality of a class of scalar quantum field theories in more than three dimensions, a description of the phase transition of the Ising model in three and more dimensions, the sharpness of the phase transition in percolation theory and a method for localization of random Schrodinger operators. He received the Norbert Wiener Prize in 1990 and the Henri Poincare Prize in 2018, and edited Communications in Mathematical Physics from 2001 to 2012.