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Michael Levitt

Biophysicist and Professor of Structural biology

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Born 1947 · age 79South Africa
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  • Fame5.0
  • Momentum1.2
  • South Africa rank#11
  • Scientists rank#80
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  • Age
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    Born 1947
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Updated 2026-06-01

Michael Levitt, 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".

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#80
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Michael Levitt, 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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