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Ron Levin, Ph.D. is a Raytheon Technologies Engineering Fellow with 40 years of experience in radar signal processing, especially Ground Moving Target Indicator (GMTI).
Working for MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lockheed Martin and RTX he designed signal processing algorithms. He has authored many technical publications on radar, the structure of atomic nuclei and his hobby, the search for living micro-organisms on Mars.
He followed his father’s study of Martian Biology starting at the time of Sputnik 1957. In 1976 he accompanied his father to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for the entire primary mission of Viking. He was present at JPL for the initial discovery of extraterrestrial life. He has been following Martian research 60 years. He holds Bachelor’s, Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from Johns Hopkins University.