Herbert Levine (physicist)
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.
Education and career
[edit]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
[edit]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]
References
[edit]- ^ "Northeastern University College of Engineering". northeastern.edu. Retrieved November 19, 2022.
- ^ Maddox, John (November 3, 1983). "Snowflakes are far from simple" (PDF). Nature News and Views. 306 (5938): 13. doi:10.1038/306013a0. S2CID 4315839.
- ^ "From Snowflakes to Oilfields". New York Times. January 6, 1987.
- ^ Gleick, James (January 6, 1987). "SNOWFLAKE'S RIDDLE YIELDS TO PROBING OF SCIENCE". New York Times.
- ^ "3 renowned scientists recruited for cancer, physics and chemistry research at Rice". Archived from the original on 2015-03-29.
- ^ "Fellows nominated in 1993 by the Division of Condensed Matter Physics". APS Fellows archive. American Physical Society. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
- ^ "Member Directory".
- ^ "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.
- Living people
- American physicists
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
- Princeton University alumni
- University of California, San Diego faculty
- Rice University faculty
- Northeastern University faculty
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Fellows of the American Physical Society
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences