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Michael Levitt

Biophysicist and Professor of Structural biology

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Michael Levitt, 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.

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Born
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Place of birth
Pretoria wd
Citizenship
South Africa, United States wd
Occupation
physicist, bioinformatician, chemist, pedagogue, university teacher, biophysicist wd
Education
King's College London, Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, Pretoria Boys High School wd
Official website
csb.stanford.edu/levitt wd
Social media
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Awards wd

  • Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2013)
  • Fellow of the Royal Society
  • ISCB Fellow (2015)
  • EMBO Membership
  • DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences (2014)

Questions

When was Michael Levitt born?
Michael Levitt was born on 9 May 1947 in Pretoria.
Where did Michael Levitt study?
Michael Levitt was educated at King's College London, Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, Pretoria Boys High School.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia (English): Michael Levitt · CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. Wikidata item Q6832227 · CC0 1.0
  3. Image: DIMG 7539 (11253383215).jpg by Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden (CC BY 2.0)

Last updated · facts checked 5 November 2026

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