Michael Levitt (biophysicist)

Who is this?

Michael Levitt, (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. Levitt received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Martin Karplus and Arieh Warshel, for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems". In 2018, Levitt was a founding co-editor of the Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science.

Career

1. 1947
   Born
2. 2013
   Won Nobel Prize in Chemistry
3. 2014
   Won DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences
4. 2015
   Won ISCB Fellow
5. Member of Royal Society
6. Member of National Academy of Sciences
7. Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
8. Won Fellow of the Royal Society
9. Won EMBO Membership

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Pretoria
• •Citizenship: South Africa, United States
• •Known as: physicist, biologist, bioinformatician, chemist