Biographical Sketch, Paul H. Levine

David G. Hawkins

The founder of the MIDAS Method of Technical Analysis was Paul H. Levine, born in New York City on September 27, 1935. He grew up in upstate New York, and attended MIT, graduating with his BS in Physics in 1956. He did his graduate work at California Institute of Technology, where he blossomed as a theoretical physicist, earning his PhD in 1963. The title of his thesis was, “Phase Space Formulation of the Quantum Many-Body Problem.”

In July of 1963, he married Burgess Lea Hughes in Copenhagen.

He joined Astrophysics Research Corporation in 1965 as their Chief Scientist. Then, in 1972, he and three colleagues left and founded Megatek Corp. in San Diego, CA, which started primarily as a consulting ...

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