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Harold Levine

Who

Harold Levine · Science & Medicine

What

Physicist (theoretical and applied physics, diffraction theory)

When

c. 1922, New York City, United States — 2017, California, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Harold Levine is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist (theoretical and applied physics, diffraction theory)

How & why

Harold Levine was an American mathematician and physicist, a professor at Stanford University from 1955, who earlier co-authored a widely cited series of papers on diffraction theory with the physicist Julian Schwinger. Educated at the City College of New York and Cornell, he later worked in singularity theory and differential topology. He was Jewish and appears on reference lists of Jewish physicists and mathematicians.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics

Contributions & Sources

Physicist (theoretical and applied physics, diffraction theory)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics