The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013
Awarded on: 2013-10-09
"for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"
Affiliations:
- University of Southern California – Los Angeles, CA, USA
Arieh Warshel
Born: 1940-11-20 in Kibbutz Sde-Nahum, British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel)
Gender: male
Field: Israeli chemist, biochemist and biophysicist (born 1940)
Biography
Arieh Warshel is an Israeli-American biochemist and biophysicist. He is a pioneer in computational studies on functional properties of biological molecules, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and holds the Dana and David Dornsife Chair in Chemistry at the University of Southern California. He received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Michael Levitt and Martin Karplus for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems".