Cyrus Levinthal

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Cyrus Levinthal (May 2, 1922 – November 4, 1990) was an American molecular biologist.

[edit] Biography

Levinthal graduated with a Ph.D. in physics from University of California, Berkeley and taught physics at the University of Michigan for seven years before moving to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1957. In 1968 he joined Columbia University as the Chairman and from 1969 Professor of the newly-established Department of Biological Sciences, where he remained until his death from lung cancer in 1990.

See Levinthal's Paradox.

[edit] External links

• http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/faculty/chasin/cyrus.html
• http://www.umass.edu/molvis/francoeur/levinthal/lev-index.html