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Martin Karplus
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Austrian-born American theoretical chemist (1930–2024)
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Martin Karplus (1930–2024) was a United States-based author and scientist. His published works include *Chemical thermodynamics*, *Spinach on the Ceiling*, *Atoms and molecules*, *Advances in Chemical Physics*, and *Proteins*. He is recognized in the Nobel Chemistry collection and the Nobel Laureates collection. Additionally, he is included in the collections of the Royal Society and the American Academy Arts Sciences.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry2013
“for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Martin
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Vienna
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Sibling
- Robert Karplus
- Occupation
- scientist
- Employer
- University of Strasbourg
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- Linus Pauling
- Field of work
- theoretical chemistry
- Image
- Martin Karplus Nobel Prize 22 2013.jpg
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- Commons category
- Martin Karplus
- date of birth
- 1930-01-01
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- date of death
- 2024-12-28
- interested in
- theoretical chemistry
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Encyclopedic overview
Martin Karplus ( German: [ˈmaʁtiːn ˈkaʁplʊs]; March 15, 1930 – December 28, 2024) 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".
Early life
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