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Martin Karplus

1930 – 2024

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Wikipedia Summary

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".

Biographical & Professional Details

Date of birth
March 15, 1930
Vienna
Date of death
December 28, 2024
Cambridge
Citizenship

Austria · United States

Occupations & fields
theoretical chemistuniversity teacherbiophysicistchemistscientist
Awards & honours
Nobel Prize in ChemistryGuggenheim FellowshipACS Award in Theoretical ChemistryCommander of the Legion of Honourhonorary doctor of the University of ViennaIrving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics
Field and occupation
americký teoretický chemik, nositeľ Nobelovej ceny za chémiu
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