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Dov I. Levine (; born July 19, 1958) is an American-Israeli physicist, known for his research on , soft condensed matter physics (including granular materials, emulsions, and foams), and statistical mechanics out of equilibrium.
In 1981, Levine and Steinhardt began developing their theory of a hypothetical new form of matter with icosahedral symmetry (or other forbidden symmetries) that violated the century-old laws of crystallography. The idea, motivated by their study of Penrose tilings, was to consider atomic arrangements that are quasiperiodic rather than periodic. They introduced the term quasicrystals, short for quasiperiodic crystal, to describe the idea. Independently, in April 1982, while studying an aluminum-manganese alloy, A6Mn, Dan Shechtman made a scientific observation, published in 1984, of "a metallic solid which diffracts electrons like a single crystal but has a point group symmetry (icosahedral) that is inconsistent with lattice translations." When Levine and Steinhardt were shown a preprint, they recognized the diffraction pattern as matching their prediction for an icosahedral quasicrystal and, hence, published their theory and proposed that explanation.
According to Steinhardt:
Levine was from 1986 to 1988 a postdoctoral member of UCSB's ITP (now known as KIPT) and from 1988 to 1989 a visiting scientist at the Weizmann Institute. He was from 1988 to 1991 an assistant professor at the University of Florida. In 1990 he joined the physics department of the Technion, where he is now a professor of physics. For the academic year 1997–1998 he was a visiting member of UCSB's ITP.
In 2020 he published, with Shankar Ghosh and five other colleagues, research on the development of rechargeable N95 masks.
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Categories: 1958 Births, Living People, Stony Brook University Alumni, University Of Pennsylvania Alumni, University Of Florida Faculty, Academic Staff Of Technion – Israel Institute Of Technology, American Condensed Matter Physicists, Israeli Materials Scientists, Israeli Physicists, Jewish American Physicists, Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize Winners, Fellows Of The American Physical Society, Quasicrystals, Scientists From New York City, American Physicists
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