Janna Levin

Person · Open Library

Born

1967

Works

13

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

United States

Active from

1966

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

327

Total plays

964

Janna J. Levin (b. 1967) is an American theoretical cosmologist. She earned a PhD in theoretical physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993, and a BS. in astronomy and physics with a concentration in philosophy at Barnard College in 1988. Much of her work deals with looking for evidence to support the proposal that our universe might be finite in size due to its having a nontrivial topology. Other work includes black holes and chaos theory. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ja

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

   · 2011 · cited 19,412x

2. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

   · 2016 · cited 11,704x

3. Human Breast Cancer: Correlation of Relapse and Survival with Amplification of the HER-2/<i>neu</i>Oncogene

   · 1987 · cited 9,376x

4. Unit root tests in panel data: asymptotic and finite-sample properties

   · 2002 · cited 8,759x

5. GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral

   · 2017 · cited 8,261x

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Quotes

• “(By moving) I'm making sounds on the drums of spacetime"… "Space itself wobbles and rumbles like a drum... Black holes can bang on spacetime like mallets on a drum.”
• “People used to try to hijack quantum mechanics and its inherent mystery to cast a cloud around determinism, in the hope that free will could survive modern physics. But that never worked very well. Since when does random chance equal free will? The only salvation for volition is a soul and faith and you’re not allowed to ask me about that.”
• “It might seem limited to impose our human perception to try to deduce the grandest cosmic code. But we are the product of the universe and I think it can be argued that the entire cosmic code is imprinted in us. Just as our genes carry the memory of our biological ancestors, our logic carries the memory of our cosmological ancestry. We are not just imposing human-centric notions on a cosmos independent of us. We are progeny of the cosmos and our ability to understand it is an inheritance.”
• “Topology and number theory are my faves.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Janna

Gender

female

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Texas

Occupation

theoretical physicist

Educated at

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Employer

University of Cambridge

Languages spoken

English language

Award

Guggenheim Fellowship

Doctoral advisor

Katherine Freese

Field of work

astrophysics

Official website

www.jannalevin.com

Image

Beyond the Cradle 2019 Janna Levin (47422163091).jpg

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