Background
Horwitz, Lawrence Paul was born on October 14, 1930 in New York City. Son of Emil and Rose (Spiegel) Horwitz.
Horwitz, Lawrence Paul was born on October 14, 1930 in New York City. Son of Emil and Rose (Spiegel) Horwitz.
After obtaining his Doctor of Philosophy at Harvard University under Julian Schwinger, he worked at the International Business Machines Corporation Research Laboratory in Yorktown, New York until 1964.
He then worked at the Department of Theoretical Physics at the University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, until 1966, and became full professor at the Department of Physics, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado. He has been Full Professor at the School of Physics, Tel Aviv University since 1972 (Professor Emeritus since 1998), and teaching externally as well at Bar Ilan University from 1990. He has been participating as well in research at the Ariel University Center of Samaria, in the Israeli settlement of Ariel in the West Bank.
He has been on the editorial and advisory boards and standing committees for several conferences on mathematical and theoretical physics and journals, and on the Panel of Assessors American Red Cross, Australian National Funding DEET. He has made frequent visits, long and short term, at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, the Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva, European Organization of Nuclear Research (Geneva), University of Connecticut (Storrs, Connecticut), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (Honggerberg, Zurich), Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (Bures-sur-Yvette, France), and the Ilya Prigogine Center for Statistical Mechanics and Complex Systems, University of Texas at Austin, United States of America.
Member American Physical Society, International Association Mathematics Physics, Swiss Physical Society, European Physical Society, International Society for the Study of Time, New York Academy Sciences.
Married Ruth Elsie Abeles, September 2, 1951. Children: Benjamin Allen, Simon Ann Dorothy, Deborah Michelle Wechsler.