The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013was awarded jointly to Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems".

Martin Karplus

Born: 15 March 1930, Vienna, Austria

Affiliation at the time of the award: Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Prize motivation: "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"

Michael Levitt

Born: 9 May 1947, Pretoria, South Africa

Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

Prize motivation: "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"

Arieh Warshel

Born: 20 November 1940, Kibbutz Sde-Nahum, Israel

Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Prize motivation: "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"