David H. Levy

**David Howard (Doveed) Levy** (an haife shi a ranar 22 ga Mayu, 1948 ) masanin taurari ne na Kanada, marubucin kimiyya kuma mai gano comets da Ƙananan taurari, wanda ya gano Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 a 1993, wanda ya yi karo da duniyar Jupiter a 1994.

## Tarihin rayuwa
An haifi Levy a Montreal, Quebec, Kanada, a cikin shekara ta 1948. Ya ci gaba da sha'awar ilimin taurari tun yana ƙarami. Koyaya, ya bi kuma ya sami digiri na farko da digiri na biyu a cikin wallafe-wallafen Ingilishi.

Levy ya ci gaba da gano comets 23, ko dai da kansa ko tare da Gene da Carolyn Shoemaker. Ya rubuta littattafai 34, galibi a kan batutuwan astronomical, kamar The Quest for Comets, tarihin mai gano Pluto Clyde Tombaugh a cikin 2006, da kuma harajinsa ga Gene Shoemaker a cikin Shoemaker na Levy . Ya samar da labaran lokaci-lokaci ga mujallar Sky da Telescope,  da kuma Parade Magazine, Sky News kuma, kwanan nan, Astronomy Magazine.

Comets na lokaci-lokaci da Levy ya gano sun hada da 118P / Shoemaker-Levy, 129P / Shoomaker-Leval, 135P / Shoamaker-Level, 137P / Shoémaker-Levil, 138P / Shoemaaker-Leven, 145P / Shoemeaker-Leve, da 181P / Shoemiaker-Levery. Bugu da kari, Levy shine kadai mai gano comets guda biyu na lokaci-lokaci: 255P / Levy da P/1991 L3.

A ranar 28 ga Fabrairu, 2011, an ba Levy Ph.D. daga Jami'ar Ibrananci ta Urushalima don nasarar kammala rubutunsa "The Sky in Early Modern English Literature: A Study of Allusions to Celestial Events in Elizabethan and Jacobean Writing, 1572-1620.

Farawa a cikin 2015, Levy yana ba da gudummawa ga bayanan sa na lura, wanda ya ci gaba da kiyayewa tun 1956, mujallu na kansa tun 1958, da kuma bayanan bincikensa tun 1965, zuwa Linda Hall Library of Science a Kansas City. Rubuce-rubucen lura suna kan layi a shafin yanar gizon Royal Astronomical Society of Canada . 

Yana zaune a Vail, Arizona kuma ya auri Wendee Levy  daga 1997 har zuwa mutuwarta a 2022. Levy da matarsa sun dauki bakuncin shirin tattaunawa na rediyo na intanet na mako-mako kan ilimin taurari, wanda ya ƙare a ranar 3 ga Fabrairu, 2011, tare da shirin "Final Show". Ana samun bayanan nunawa a cikin tsarin WMA da MP3. Levy shi ne Shugaban Gidauniyar Kasuwancin Sama ta Kasa  kuma Jagora na Astronomy tare da DeTao Masters Academy (DTMA).

Littafin Levy, "A Nightwatchman's journey: the Road Not Taken" an buga shi ne a watan Yunin 2019 ta Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.

## Kyaututtuka
An sanya wa babban asteroid 3673 Levy suna don girmama shi.[1] An ba Levy lambar yabo ta C.A. Chant na Royal Astronomical Society of Canada a shekarar 1980. Levy ta sami lambar yabo ta G. Bruce Blair ta 1990.[undefined] A shekara ta 1993 ya lashe lambar yabo ta Amateur Achievement na Astronomical Society of the Pacific . A shekara ta 2007, Levy ya sami lambar yabo ta Edgar Wilson ta Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory don gano comets. A cikin shekara ta 2008, Levy ne ya tsara na'urar daukar hoto ta musamman, "The Comet Hunter".[2]

Tare da Martyn Ives, David Taylor, da Benjamin Woolley, Levy ya lashe lambar yabo ta 1998 News & Documentary Emmy a cikin rukunin "Individual Achievement in a Craft, Writer" don rubutun shirin 3 Minutes to Impact wanda York Films ta samar don Discovery Channel .  

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