:Draft:Mel Levy
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Mel Levy (1941-) is an American Physicist, working on the mathematical foundations of condensed matter theory. He is best known for his work on Density Functional theory, specifically the constrained search approach
{{cite journal |title=PNAS article on constrained search DFT |journal= Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America|date=1979 |doi=10.1073/pnas.76.12.6062 |pmid=16592733 |last1=Levy |first1=M. |volume=76 |issue=12 |pages=6062–6065 |doi-access=free |pmc=411802 }} which generalizes the Hohenberg Kohn theorem to degenerate ground states.
Levy became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1995{{cite web |title=APS fellowships 1995 |url=https://www.aps.org/funding-recognition/aps-fellowship?award_fellowship%5Bpage%5D=129 |access-date=8 April 2025 |website=American Physical Society}}.
He is also a member of the International Association of Quantum Molecular Science
Career
Mel Levy obtained his PhD at Indiana State University, then carried out a post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University, then at the Technical University of Munich.
Levy worked as faculty in the Physics Department of Tulane University from 1976 to 2002, then at North Carolina A&T State University until 2007. Since 2007 he has worked at Duke University where he is now emeritus professor.
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