Alexander Levine

Alexander Levine, a professor of physics and astronomy in the UCLA College, died July 8. He was 54.

Levine, who was also a professor chemistry and biochemistry and a member of the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, was an accomplished and influential scientist who made contributions to the physics of biological systems. His work has led to advances in fundamental knowledge and to expanded options for the treatment of disease.

Born in Los Angeles and having grown up in Pacific Palisades, Levine joined the UCLA faculty 2005. Prior to that, he was an assistant professor of physics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He performed postdoctoral work at Exxon Research and Engineering Co., the University of Pennsylvania and UC Santa Barbara. He received his doctoral degree in physics from UCLA in 1996.

His research group studied a variety of problems in the field of soft condensed matter and biophysics. He also studied aspects of the statistical mechanics of neuronal networks, phase transitions in colloidal crystals, and even laser trapping of colloidal particles with more complex shapes...

Full news release at https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/in-memoriam-alex-levine-ucla-center-for-biological-physics.

Other obituaries report that Prof. Levine died "after a nearly yearlong struggle with cancer."

https://alumni.ucla.edu/class-notes/alexander-levine-89-m-s-91-ph-d-96/.