Michael Levitt

Michael Levitt, FRS (Hebrew: מיכאל לויט; born 9 May 1947) is a South African biophysicist. He is a professor of structural biology at Stanford University, a position he has held since 1987.^[11][12] Levitt received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.^[13]

Michael Levitt FRS
Michael Levitt
Levitt during the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences press conference in Stockholm in December 2013
Born	(1947-05-09) 9 May 1947 (age 78)[1] Pretoria, South Africa
Citizenship	American[2] British[2] Israeli[2] South African[2]
Education	Pretoria Boys High School
Alma mater	King's College London (BScs) University of Cambridge (PhD)
Spouse	Shoshan Brosh
Awards	EMBO Membership (1983)[3] Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2002) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2013) DeLano Award (2014) ISCB Fellow (2015)[4]
Scientific career
Fields	Computational Structural Biology[5] Structure Determination Simulation of Mesoscale Molecular dynamics
Institutions	Stanford University Weizmann Institute of Science Laboratory of Molecular Biology University of Cambridge
Thesis	Conformation analysis of proteins (1972)
Doctoral advisor	Robert Diamond[6]
Notable students	(postdocs) Steven Brenner[source?] Cyrus Chothia Valerie Daggett[7] Mark Gerstein[8] Julian Gough[9] Ram Samudrala[10]
Website	csb.stanford.edu/levitt med.stanford.edu/profiles/Michael_Levitt