Martin Karplus

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

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

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]

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6 "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013" (Press release). Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. October 9, 2013. Retrieved October 9, 2013.
↑ Chang, Kenneth (October 9, 2013). "3 Researchers Win Nobel Prize in Chemistry". New York Times. Retrieved October 9, 2013.
↑ Fersht, A. R. (2013). "Profile of Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt, and Arieh Warshel, 2013 nobel laureates in chemistry". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 110 (49): 19656–7. Bibcode:2013PNAS..11019656F. doi:10.1073/pnas.1320569110. PMC 3856823. PMID 24277833.
↑ Hodak, Hélène (2014). "The Nobel Prize in chemistry 2013 for the development of multiscale models of complex chemical systems: A tribute to Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel". Journal of Molecular Biology. 426 (1): 1–3. doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2013.10.037. PMID 24184197.
↑ Van Noorden, R. (2013). "Computer modellers secure chemistry Nobels". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2013.13903. S2CID 211729791.
↑ Van Noorden, Richard (2013). "Modellers react to chemistry award: Nobel Prize proves that theorists can measure up to experimenters". Nature. 502 (7471): 280. doi:10.1038/502280a. PMID 24132265. S2CID 195685726.