Herbert Levine (physicist)

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Herbert Levine is an American physicist, a University Distinguished Professor of Physics and Bioengineering at Northeastern University. [1] He is also co-director of a National Science Foundation Physics Frontier Center devoted to theoretical biological physics. His research focuses on physical modeling of cancer progression, metastasis and interaction with the immune system.

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Education and career

Levine studied at MIT and Princeton University, earning his doctorate in 1979. After postdoctoral studies at Harvard, he joined Schlumberger-Doll Research in Connecticut where he studied the physics of pattern formation. His work led to some famous discoveries about crystal pattern formation providing a working mathematics for tying together the forces that stabilize the growing patterns and the forces that destabilize them. His work on snowflakes gained Levine notoriety both within the academic world [2] and outside of it. [3] [4]

Levine left Schlumberger-Doll and moved to the University of California, San Diego in 1987. He joined Rice University as a Professor and the Hasselman Chair of Bioengineering in 2011, [5] before joining Northeastern in 2019.

Recognition

Levine was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 1993, after a nomination from the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics, "for the development of a new theoretical approach to interfacial pattern formation, leading to new understanding of dendritic growth, fingering instabilities and fractal structures". [6] He was elected to of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences [7] and the National Academy of Sciences in 2011. [8]

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  1. ↑ "Northeastern University College of Engineering". northeastern.edu. Retrieved November 19, 2022.
  2. ↑ Maddox, John (November 3, 1983). "Snowflakes are far from simple" (PDF). Nature News and Views. 306 (5938): 13. Bibcode:1983Natur.306...13M. doi:10.1038/306013a0. S2CID   4315839.
  3. ↑ "From Snowflakes to Oilfields". New York Times. January 6, 1987.
  4. ↑ Gleick, James (January 6, 1987). "SNOWFLAKE'S RIDDLE YIELDS TO PROBING OF SCIENCE". New York Times.
  5. ↑ "3 renowned scientists recruited for cancer, physics and chemistry research at Rice". Archived from the original on 2015-03-29.
  6. ↑ "Fellows nominated in 1993 by the Division of Condensed Matter Physics". APS Fellows archive. American Physical Society. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
  7. ↑ "Member Directory". 3 October 2024.
  8. ↑ "PROFESSOR HERBERT LEVINE ELECTED TO MEMBERSHIP IN THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, ONE OF THE HIGHEST HONORS BESTOWED ON U.S. SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS". January 24, 2011.
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