Michael Levitt
Nobel laureate, biophysicist, and professor of structural biology (born 1947) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the biophysicist. For the American producer, see Michael Levitt (producer). For the Canadian politician, see Michael Levitt (politician). For other people with similar names, see Michael Leavitt.
Michael Levitt, FRS[13] (Hebrew: מיכאל לויט; born 9 May 1947) is a South African-born biophysicist and a professor of structural biology at Stanford University, a position he has held since 1987.[14][15] Levitt received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry,[16] together with Martin Karplus and Arieh Warshel, for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems".[17][18][19][20] In 2018, Levitt was a founding co-editor of the Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science.[21]
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Born | (1947-05-09) 9 May 1947 (age 76)[1] Pretoria, South Africa |
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Education | Pretoria Boys High School |
Alma mater | King's College London (BScs) University of Cambridge (PhD) |
Spouse | Shoshan Brosh[citation needed] |
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Thesis | Conformation analysis of proteins (1972) |
Doctoral advisor | Robert Diamond[7][8] |
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Website | med |
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