Cohen, Stanley Win Boltzmann Medals

The Commission on Statistical Physics (C3) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics is awarding individual Boltzmann Medals for 2004 to Ezechiel Godert David Cohen and H. Eugene Stanley. The two winners will receive their medals this month at the 22nd International Conference on Statistical Physics in Bangalore, India.

The commission is honoring Cohen for his “fundamental contributions to nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, including the development of a theory of transport phenomena in dense gases, and the characterization of measures and fluctuations in non-equilibrium stationary states.” Cohen is a professor emeritus of theoretical physics at the Rockefeller University in New York City.

Stanley, University Professor and a Professor of Physics at Boston University, is being recognized for his “influential contributions to several areas of statistical physics, including the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena in spin systems and the percolation problem, and the application of these ideas to interpret the anomalous properties of liquid water.”

The C3 commission presents the Boltzmann award every three years.