# Michael Levitt

> He cracked how to simulate molecules too large to model atom-by-atom and too small to treat as bulk matter—the multiscale method that won him a share of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

*Biophysicist and Professor of Structural biology*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** South Africa
- **Born:** 1947-05-09
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born 9 May 1947 in South Africa, Michael Levitt came up through biophysics at a time when computers were just beginning to handle biological complexity. The work that defined him—developed with Martin Karplus and Arieh Warshel—married quantum mechanics for reactive centers with classical physics for the surrounding structure, letting scientists model protein behavior without impossible computation. Stanford made him a professor of structural biology in 1987, a post he's held since. The Nobel came in 2013. In 2018 he turned toward the data deluge, co-founding the Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science to shape how the field makes sense of itself.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 56.9 / 100
- **Momentum:** 10.8 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 23.4 / 100
- **Now attention:** 30.8 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 70.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 80.0 / 100
- **Country rank:** #124

## Platforms
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- **WEBSITE**: http://csb.stanford.edu/levitt

## Topics
#Scientists, #Scientist, #Physics, #Chemistry, #Literature, #South Africa, #Africa, #20th Century

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