The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013
Awarded on: 2013-10-09
"for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"
Affiliations:
- Université de Strasbourg – Strasbourg, France
- Harvard University – Cambridge, MA, USA
Martin Karplus
Born: 1930-03-15 in Vienna, Austria
Gender: male
Field: Austrian-American chemist (1930–2024)
Biography
Martin Karplus was an Austrian and American theoretical chemist. He was the Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University. He was also the director of the Biophysical Chemistry Laboratory, a joint laboratory between the French National Center for Scientific Research and the University of Strasbourg, France. 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".