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.