Haim Brezis#
| Membership Number: | 573 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~brezis |
Present and Previous Positions
- 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
- Equations arising in liquid crystals, superconductors, Ginzberg-Landau
- Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
- 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.
