Trevor Harvey Levere FRSC (1944–2022) was an English-born, Canadian historian of science, specializing in the history of chemistry.
[1] After graduating from St Paul's School, London, Levere matriculated in 1962 at the University of Oxford.
As an undergraduate, he enjoyed reading about the history of science as presented in the work of Herbert Butterfield, Henry Leicester, and Thomas Kuhn.
thesis on an historical topic in chemistry eventually appeared as a chapter in the 1969 book Martinus van Marum.
Levere's Ph.D. thesis, published in 1971 with the title Affinity and Matter: Elements of Chemical Philosophy 1800–1865, remains an important reference for historians of chemistry.
Transforming Matter is noteworthy for its "readable style"[2] and, according to David M. Knight, is "amazingly full of information.
He held Visiting Fellowships in France (1981, Centre national de recherché scientifique, Paris), in the UK (1983, Clare Hall, Cambridge); in the USA (1995, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, MIT); and in Spain (2006, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona).