Simon LeVay (born 28 August 1943 in Oxford, England) is a British-American neuroscientist.. He received a bachelor's degree in natural sciences from the University of Cambridge in 1966, a Ph.D. in Neuroanatomy at the University of Göttingen in Germany, and completed his post doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School in 1974.. LeVay held positions in neurobiology at the Harvard Medical ....