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Michael Levitt (biophysicist)
South African-born biophysicist (born 1947)
Michael Levitt, FRS[12] (Hebrew: מיכאל לויט; born 9 May 1947) is a South African-born biophysicist and a professor of structural biology at Stanford University, a position he has held since 1987.[13][14] Levitt received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry,[15] together with Martin Karplus and Arieh Warshel, for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems".[16][17][18][19] In 2018, Levitt was a founding co-editor of the Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science.[20]
Early life and education
Michael Levitt was born in Pretoria, South Africa, to a Jewish family from Plungė, Lithuania; his father was from Lithuania and his mother from the Czech Republic.[21] He attended Sunnyside Primary School and then Pretoria Boys High School between 1960 and 1962.
The family moved to England when