Haim Brezis#


Haim Brezis
Sadly, this member passed away.
Membership Number:573
Membership type:FOREIGN
Section:MATHEMATICS
Elected:1989
Main Country of Residence:UNITED STATES


Haim Brezis passed away July 7, 2024.

Positions Held
  • Professor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University
  • Visiting Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University
  • 1972 Ph.D. from the University of Paris

Fields of Scholarship
  • Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
  • Equations arising in liquid crystals, superconductors, Ginzberg-Landau
  • Nonlinear Functional Analysis

Honours and Awards
  • Membership in academies
    • 1998 Member, Académie des Sciences Paris
    • 1989 Member, Academia Europaea
    • 1994 Foreign member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • 1993 Foreign member, Romanian Academy
    • 2000 Foreign member, Royal Academy of Sciences, Madrid
    • 2002 Foreign member, Royal Academy of Sciences, Belgium
    • 2003 Foreign member, National Academy of Sciences, USA
    • 2010 Foreign member, Accademia dei Lincei, Rome
  • Honorary degrees
    • 1996 Doctor Honoris Causa, Catholic University of Louvain-la Neuve
    • 1998 Doctor Honoris Causa, Technion, Haifa
    • 1999 Honorary Professor, Academia Sinica, Beijing
    • 1999 Honorary Professor, Fudan University, Shanghai
    • 2000 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Bucarest
    • 2001 Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
    • 2002 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Leiden
    • 2005 Honorary Professor, Beijing Normal University
    • 2006 Doctor Honoris Causa, SISSA (Scuola Intern. Sup. Studi Avanzati), Italy
    • 2010 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Iasi, Romania
    • 2012 Honorary Member of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society
  • Prizes
    • 1974 Prix Peccot, Collège de France
    • 1976 Prix Carrière, Académie des Sciences Paris
    • 1985 Prix Ampère, Grand Prix de l'Académie des Sciences Paris
    • 1990 Prix Eugène Catalan, Académie Royale de Belgique
    • 2001 Ky Fan Award of the Amer. Math. Soc.
    • 2024 Prix Leroy P. Steele
  • 2010 Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur


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