Harold I. Levine was an American
mathematician who was professor at
Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
. He specialized in
wave motion
In physics, mathematics, and related fields, a wave is a propagating dynamic disturbance (change from equilibrium) of one or more quantities. Waves can be periodic, in which case those quantities oscillate repeatedly about an equilibrium (re ...
and
optics.
Levine was born in
New York City. After he graduated from the
City College of New York
The City College of the City University of New York (also known as the City College of New York, or simply City College or CCNY) is a public university within the City University of New York (CUNY) system in New York City. Founded in 1847, Cit ...
, he earned a
Ph.D. in Physics from
Cornell University. In 1954, he was awarded a
Guggenheim fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...
. Levine died on December 10, 2017 at the age of 95.
Harold Levine Books
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1922 births
2017 deaths
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
City College of New York alumni
Cornell University alumni
Scientists from New York City
Mathematicians from New York (state)
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