Michael Levitt
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Michael Levitt is a biophysicist and professor of structural biology who studies the three-dimensional shapes and structures of biological molecules like proteins. His work matters because understanding how these molecules are structured helps scientists develop new medicines and better comprehend how living systems function at the molecular level.
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Michael Levitt, FRS (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. 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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1947 births20th-century British biologists21st-century British biologistsAcademic staff of Weizmann Institute of ScienceAlumni of King's College LondonAlumni of Peterhouse, CambridgeAlumni of Pretoria Boys High SchoolAmerican biophysicistsAmerican fellows of the Royal SocietyAmerican Nobel laureatesAnnual Reviews (publisher) editorsBritish fellows of the Royal Society