Born in
Riom-ès-Montagnes,
Cantal, France. Brezis was the son of a
Romanian immigrant father, who had come to France in the 1930s, and a Jewish mother who had fled from the Netherlands. His wife,
Michal Govrin, is an Israeli novelist, poet, and theater director. Brezis received his Ph.D. from the
University of Paris in 1972 under the supervision of
Gustave Choquet. He was a professor at the
Pierre and Marie Curie University and a visiting distinguished professor at
Rutgers University. He was a member of the
Academia Europaea (1988) and a foreign associate of the
United States National Academy of Sciences (2003). In 2012 he became a fellow of the
American Mathematical Society. He held honorary doctorates from several universities including
National Technical University of Athens. Brezis is listed as an
ISI highly cited researcher. He also served on the Mathematical Sciences jury for the
Infosys Prize in 2013 and 2014. In 2024 he was awarded the
Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement of the AMS. Brezis died in
Jerusalem on 7 July 2024, at the age of 80. ==Works==