Martin Karplus

Martin Karplus (March 15, 1930 – December 28, 2024) was an Austrian-born American theoretical chemist. He was the Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry, emeritus at Harvard University. He was also Director of the Biophysical Chemistry Laboratory. He is of Jewish descent.

Martin Karplus
Nobel Prize Laureate Martin Karplus during press conference in Stockholm, December 2013
Born	(1930-03-15)March 15, 1930 Vienna, Austria[1]
Died	December 28, 2024(2024-12-28) (aged 94) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Citizenship	American, Austrian[1]
Alma mater	California Institute of Technology[1] Harvard University
Awards	Irving Langmuir Award (1987) ForMemRS (2000) Linus Pauling Award (2004) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2013)[1]
Scientific career
Institutions	Harvard University Université de Strasbourg[1] Columbia University University of Illinois
Thesis	A quantum-mechanical discussion of the bifluoride ion (1954)
Doctoral advisor	Linus Pauling[1]
Website	chemistry.harvard.edu/people/martin-karplus

Karplus received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel, for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems".^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Karplus died on December 28, 2024 in Cambridge, Massachusetts from problems caused by a fall at the age of 94.^[7][8]