Chemistry

Biographical

I was born in Akron, Ohio on June 6, 1943, one year to the day before D-Day, the allied invasion at Normandy. The youngest of four children, I was brought up in a wonderfully stable, loving family of strong Midwestern values. When I was three my family moved to Kansas City, Missouri where we lived…

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I was born on November 20, 1940 in Kibbutz Sde Nahum in the Beit She’an Valley, in what was back then the pre-independent Israel. I grew up in a relatively happy environment at the so-called “kids house,” where the kids from the same class slept together. The idea was for kids to have quality time…

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Links to other sites O Articles Levitt, M. (2001) The birth of computational structural biology, Nature structural biology 8:392–393.Karplus, M. (2006) Spinach on the Ceiling: A Theoretical Chemist’s Return to Biology,Annu. Rev. Biophys. Biomol. Struct. 35: 1–47.Johnson, P. (2012) Warshel Fêted by Royal Society of Chemistry, http://128.125.126.117/news/stories/1298/warshel-fted-by-royal-society-of-chemistry/

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Press release

Swedish 9 oktober 2013 har beslutat utdela Nobelpriset i kemi år 2013 till Martin Karplus,Université de Strasbourg, Frankrike och Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA Michael LevittStanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA och Arieh WarshelUniversity of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA ”för utvecklandet av flerskalemodeller för komplexa kemiska system” Datorn – visar vägen…

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English 9 October 2013 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2013 to Martin KarplusUniversité de Strasbourg, France and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA Michael LevittStanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA and Arieh WarshelUniversity of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA “for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical…

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Dorothy Crowfoot was born in Cairo on May 12th, 1910 where her father, John Winter Crowfoot, was working in the Egyptian Education Service. He moved soon afterwards to the Sudan, where he later became both Director of Education and of Antiquities; Dorothy visited the Sudan as a girl in 1923, and acquired a strong affection…

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Family Background I was born in Pretoria, the executive capital of South Africa, on 9 May 1947. My mother, Gertrude, was also born in South Africa, in Johannesburg to parents who had emigrated from Czechoslovakia. My father was born in Plungė, Lithuania, and came to South Africa when he was 10 years old. My childhood…

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I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1940, and my family lived in an apartment above a paint store in the downtown area until 1949. Although my father had obtained a law degree from Marquette University in Milwaukee, he became the administrator in charge of personnel at the Milwaukee County Hospital. My mother grew up…

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