Society for Applied Spectroscopy Emeritus Membership Award

 

Recognizing those individuals who have who have contributed to spectroscopy and have been members of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy for 15 years, and now have retired from active scientific endeavor.

 

Ira W. Levin

 

 

Dr. Levin received his B.S. from the University of Virginia and his Ph.D. from Brown University, as well as having postdoctoral experience at the University of Washington, serving as a Research Instructor.  He retired from the National Institutes of Health after a forty eight year research career which included service as the Chief, of the Section on Molecular Biophysics and Scientific Director of the Division of Intramural Research in the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.

 

His early research interests lay primarily in the applications of vibrational infrared and Raman spectroscopic techniques toward the elucidation of the conformational, dynamical, thermodynamic, and functional properties of both intact and model membrane assemblies and related systems.  Later research was at the forefront of developing imaging analogues of molecular spectroscopic instrumentation, specifically, technologies and studies in spectroscopic FTIR and Raman microimaging. Imaging efforts also involved the translation of basic, bench  laboratory research into a variety of clinical venues.   

 

Dr. Levin has been honored with many awards including, for example, the Bomem-Michelson Award, the Lippincott Award, the Meggers Award (three separate occasions) and various invited lecture series.  He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society's Biophysical Division and, separately, a Fellow in its Division of Chemical Physics and is a Fellow of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy.  He has served on numerous boards and committees, in various leadership capacities in the spectroscopy community and at NIH, as well as having published extensively over the course of his career.