Levy (September 12, 1913 – March 25, 2003) was an American physicist and crystallographer who made contributions in the field of neutron scattering by crystalline materials.
[1] Levy was born in Oxnard, California and gained both his bachelor's degree and PhD at Caltech, in 1935 and 1938 respectively.
[1] He built on the work of Ernest O. Wollan and Clifford G. Shull in determining the structure of crystalline solids such as Xenon tetrafluoride,[2] sucrose[3] and glucose[4] using neutron diffraction.
He pioneered automated methodology for neutron diffraction studies,[5] along with several computer programs for analysis of crystallographic data.
[1] In his later life, Levy worked on electron tomography of large biological complexes, particularly those transcribing DNA.