Herbert W. Levi

Herbert W. Levi (1921–2014) was a German-American arachnologist and professor emeritus of zoology at Harvard University, renowned for his extensive research on spiders and his role as curator of arachnology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, he fled to Britain as a child via the Kindertransport and later became a leading authority on spider taxonomy, coauthoring 'A Guide to Spiders and Their Kin'.