Donald Harris Levy (born June 30, 1939) is an

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chemical physicist on the faculty of the

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, Chicago, USA. He is recognized as a leader in the development of supersonic jet cooling.

Biography

Donald Levy has been a member of the

Chemistry faculty since 1967. He is presently the ''Albert A. Michelson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus''. His research interests have included laser spectroscopy in supersonic molecular beams and jets, the structure of van der Waals molecules, energy transfer in weakly bound molecular systems, bichromophoric organic molecules, and multi-photonionization spectroscopy. From 1998 to 2008 he was editor of the '' Journal of Chemical Physics''. In 2005, he was chair of the Universities Science Policy Council, a group responsible for guiding high level scientific directions at

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, awarding joint appointments, and negotiating student and faculty access to National User Facilities at Argonne. After 2007, he was named by the

Vice President for Research and for National Laboratories, CEO of UChicago Argonne, LLC and a Member of the Board of Directors of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. He has been a member of the

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since 1988. He is a Fellow of the

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, the

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and the

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. He is the past chairman of the Chemistry Department at the

, where he played an important role as a leader for planning the Gordon Center for Integrative Science.

Awards

He was awarded the Plyler Prize of the

in 1987, the E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy in 2006, and the Ellis Lippincott Award from the Optical Society of America.

References

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