{"id":4022,"date":"2015-12-08T22:40:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T06:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/?p=4022"},"modified":"2015-12-08T22:40:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T06:40:25","slug":"levin-s-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/2015\/12\/levin-s-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon A. Levin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Simon A. Levin<\/strong><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Born:<\/span> Baltimore, MD 4\/22\/1941<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Education:<\/span> The Johns Hopkins University (B.A. 1961); University of Maryland (Ph.D. 1964)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Dissertation title:<\/span> <em>Uniqueness and nonlinearity<\/em>.<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Adviser:<\/span> M. Martin<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Comments:<\/span> Mathematics provided the foundation; ecology provided the outlet. Postdoctoral adviser G.B. Dantzig. Early ecological collaborators: <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/whittaker-r-h\/\">R. H. Whittaker<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/root-r-b\/\">R. B. Root<\/a>, R. M. May, R. T. Paine, D. Pimentel, <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/mooney-h-a\/\">H. A. Mooney<\/a>, C. Field, P. R. Ehrlich<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Teaching history:<\/span> Cornell University 1965-1992 (1992-present, Adjunct Professor); Princeton University (1992-present); University of California, Irvine, Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences (Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2007-present); University of California, Irvine, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2009-present)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Ph.D. Students:<\/span> 70 students completed Ph.D. or current; others influenced: postdoctoral researchers supervised 89 to date; many visitors and collaborators<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">ESA offices and honors:<\/span> MacArthur Award 1988; President 1990-91; Distinguished Service Citation 1998; Eminent Ecologist 2010; Fellow 2012<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">ESA links:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/Awards\/bulletin\/macarthur1988.pdf\">MacArthur Award<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/biogr\/Levin_SApb.pdf\">Presidential bio<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/Awards\/bulletin\/service1998.pdf\">Dist Service Citation<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/Awards\/bulletin\/eminent2010.pdf\">Eminent Ecologist<\/a><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">External links:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/eeb\/people\/display_person.xml?netid=slevin\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Princeton University Faculty Page<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Simon_A._Levin\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia<\/a><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Archived Papers: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/?term=levin+s+a\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">List of Published Work in MyBibliography<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon A. Levin Born: Baltimore, MD 4\/22\/1941 Education: The Johns Hopkins University (B.A. 1961); University of Maryland (Ph.D. 1964) Dissertation title: Uniqueness and nonlinearity. Adviser: M. Martin Comments: Mathematics provided the foundation; ecology provided the outlet. Postdoctoral adviser G.B. Dantzig. Early ecological collaborators: R. H. Whittaker, R. B. Root, R. M. May, R. T. Paine, D. Pimentel, H. A. Mooney,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,159],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-4022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","category-microbios","tag-microbiographies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}