Dov Levine

Dov Levine is an Israeli-American physicist who studies solid state physics.

Levine grew up in New York (his father was professor of physical chemistry there ) and studied at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY) ( Bachelor 1979) and received his doctorate in 1986 at the University of Pennsylvania under Paul Steinhardt . He was a post-doc at the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara . In 1988 he became an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida . Since 1990 he has been a professor at the Technion in Haifa . In 1988/89 he was a visiting scientist at the Weizmann Institute .

Levine is known for his early work on quasicrystals , which he carried out as a doctoral student with Paul Steinhardt from 1982. The starting point in 1982 was the Penrose parquet and variants by Robert Ammann, an amateur mathematician who advised Levine and Steinhardt at the university and whom they met through Martin Gardner . This gave rise to her concept of the quasicrystal as a crystal with quasi-periodic translation symmetry, published in Physical Review Letters 1984. He also deals with the physics of soft matter ( emulsions , foams , granular materials ).

He received the National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigator Award and in 2010 the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize with Paul Steinhardt and Alan Mackay for pioneering work on quasicrystals including the prediction of their diffraction spectrum .

Web links

• Biography at the APS
• Portrait at the Buckley Prize

Individual evidence

1. ^ Memories of Levine in Hargittai, Hargittai In our own image: personal symmetry in discovery. Kluwer 2000, p. 169. The work is Levine, Steinhardt: Quasicrystals: A New Class of Ordered Structures. In: Physical Review Letters. Volume 53, 1984, pp. 2477-2480