Janna J Levin was born on 1967 and is an American theoretical cosmologist and a professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College.
13 Facts About Janna Levin
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Janna Levin earned a Bachelor of Science in astronomy and physics with a concentration in philosophy at Barnard College in 1988 and a PhD in theoretical physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993.
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Janna Levin joined the faculty at Barnard College in January 2004 and is currently the Claire Tow Professor of Physics and Astronomy.
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Janna Levin's grandparents were immigrants from Eastern Europe, who eventually gave up keeping kosher.
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Janna Levin describes her household as mostly not religious.
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Janna Levin is a professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University with a grant from the Tow Foundation.
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Janna Levin is the author of the popular science book How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space.
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Janna Levin has written a series of essays to accompany exhibitions at several galleries in England, including the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art and the Hayward Gallery.
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Janna Levin was featured on Talk of the Nation on July 12,2002.
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Janna Levin appeared as a guest on Stephen Colbert's Comedy Central show The Colbert Report on August 24,2006.
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Janna Levin appeared as the featured guest on the Speaking of Faith radio show on February 22,2009, where she discussed her book A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines with the show's host Krista Tippett.
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Janna Levin did not officially graduate from high school, as she was in a serious car accident and hospitalized for a time.
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Janna Levin is the parent of two children, a son born in 2004 and a daughter born in 2007.