Donald Levy
Donald Harris Levy (born June 30, 1939) is an
American chemical physicist on the faculty of the Donald H. Levy
University of Chicago, Chicago, US. He is recognized Born June 30, 1939
as a leader in the development of supersonic jet Youngstown, OH
cooling. Nationality American
Occupation Chemist
Known for Supersonic molecular beams
Biography
Awards E. Bright Wilson Award in
Donald Levy has been a member of the University of Spectroscopy (2006)
Chicago Chemistry faculty since 1967. He is presently Ellis Lippincott Award
the Albert A. Michelson Distinguished Service Plyler Prize (1987)
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 Argonne National Laboratory, awarding joint appointments, and
negotiating student and faculty access to National User Facilities at Argonne.[1] After 2007, he was
named by the University of Chicago 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 National Academy of Sciences since 1988. He is a Fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society and the American Association for the
Advancement of Science. He is the past chairman of the chemistry department at the University of
Chicago, 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 American Physical Society in 1987, the E. Bright Wilson Award
in Spectroscopy in 2006, and the Ellis Lippincott Award from the Optical Society of America.[2]
References
1. "Science Policy Council" (https://www.uchicagoargonnellc.org/stewardship/science-policy-co
uncil). University of Chicago. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
2. "Biography" (https://web.archive.org/web/20160609170746/http://president.uchicago.edu/dir
ectory/donald-h-levy). University of Chicago. Archived from the original (http://president.uchi
cago.edu/directory/donald-h-levy) on June 9, 2016. Retrieved June 15, 2013.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donald_Levy&oldid=1164708932"
