{{Short description|American physicist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Kathryn J. Levin | workplaces = University of California, Irvine <br> University of Rochester <br> University of Chicago | alma_mater = University of California, Berkeley <br> Harvard University }}
'''Kathryn Levin''' is an American physicist who is Professor of Quantum Science at the University of Chicago.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web |title=Kathryn Levin {{!}} Department of Physics {{!}} The University of Chicago |url=https://physics.uchicago.edu/people/profile/kathryn-levin/ |access-date=2025-09-04 |website=physics.uchicago.edu}}</ref> Levin works on high temperatures cuprates and the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer – Bose–Einstein condensate crossover.<ref name="auto"/>
== Early life and education == Levin is the daughter of a physicist.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=2018-08-22 |title=August SOTM: Kathryn Levin - AWIS Chicago |url=https://www.awis-chicago.org/community/scientist-of-the-month/august-sotm-kathryn-levin |access-date=2025-01-21 |language=en-US}}</ref> She was an undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated top of the class of the College of Letters and Science.<ref name=":0" /> She completed her doctoral research at Harvard University, where she studied the transport and electronic properties of alloys.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Kathryn Levin {{!}} Department of Physics {{!}} The University of Chicago |url=https://physics.uchicago.edu/people/profile/kathryn-levin/ |access-date=2025-01-21 |website=physics.uchicago.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Topics in transport and electronic properties of alloys. I. Transport coefficients in the coherent potential |url=https://search.worldcat.org/en/title/1243762735 |access-date=2025-01-21 |website=search.worldcat.org}}</ref> She completed two postdoctoral research positions, one at the University of Rochester and one at the University of California, Irvine.<ref name="auto"/>
== Research and career == Levin works in condensed matter theory, superconductivity and superfluidity.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kathryn Levin {{!}} The James Franck Institute {{!}} The University of Chicago |url=https://jamesfranckinstitute.uchicago.edu/people/profile/kathryn-levin/ |access-date=2025-01-21 |website=jamesfranckinstitute.uchicago.edu}}</ref> Her early work considered superfluid helium.<ref name=":1" /> In 1995, quantum coherent Bose–Einstein condensatess were demonstrated in trapped atoms, and Levin was amongst the first to recognize it could be used to create coherent pairs of fermionic atoms.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/physics/docs/History_Ch2_2018.pdf?mtime=1554158417|title=Chicago Physics 1986–2017, a historical sketch, printed April 1, 2019}}</ref>
Levin works on cuprates and superconductors, and atomic gas superfluids.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Colloquium: Dr. Kathy Levin, University of Chicago {{!}} School of Physics and Astronomy {{!}} College of Science and Engineering |url=https://cse.umn.edu/physics/events/colloquium-dr-kathy-levin-university-chicago |access-date=2025-01-21 |website=cse.umn.edu |language=en}}</ref>
Levin currently works at the James franck institute, which specialize's in the intersections of physics, chemistry and material science's.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About {{!}} The James Franck Institute {{!}} The University of Chicago |url=https://jamesfranckinstitute.uchicago.edu/about/ |access-date=2025-09-04 |website=jamesfranckinstitute.uchicago.edu}}</ref>
Levin has trained about 25 PhD students and about 25 postdoctoral scholars during her continuing career.<ref name="auto"/>
==Recognition== Levin was named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 1991, after a nomination from the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics, "for her contributions to our understanding of strongly interacting Fermion systems".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/funding-recognition/aps-fellowship?award_fellowship%5Bpage%5D=143|title=APS Fellows archive|publisher=American Physical Society|access-date=2025-01-24}}</ref>
== Personal life == Levin is married with two children.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-08-22 |title=August SOTM: Kathryn Levin - AWIS Chicago |url=https://www.awis-chicago.org/community/scientist-of-the-month/august-sotm-kathryn-levin |access-date=2025-01-20 |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Selected publications == * {{Cite Q|Q81340809}} * {{Cite Q|Q74476676}} * {{Cite Q|Q74375640}}
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