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Nobel laureate, biophysicist, and professor of structural biology (born 1947) This article is about the biophysicist.1 Michael Levitt , FRS ( ; 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 . International Society for Computational Biology . PMID 23078280 . : CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI ( link ) Xia, Y.; Huang, E.2 (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) Siegel-Itzkovich, Judy (9 October 2013). "Modellers react to chemistry award: Nobel Prize proves that theorists can measure up to experimenters" .
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The opening as it stood in 2010
He is one of the first people who simulated DNA and protein structures. He also participated in CASP competition. He is known as the mentor of Mark Gerstein , the inventor of protein dynamics .
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Michael Levitt at the Biophysical Society meeting, February 2013 Michael Levitt , FRS (born 9 May 1947) is an American - British - Israeli biophysicist and a professor of structural biology at Stanford University , a position he has held since 1987.Attention: This template ( ) is deprecated.To cite the publication identified by PMID 5144255, please use with | pmid = 5144255 instead.Michael Levitt academic genealogy and list of PhD & Postdoc trainees Michael Levitt at the Mathematics Genealogy Project "Past colleagues in the Levitt Lab" .Attention: This template ( ) is deprecated.To cite the publication identified by PMID 7688428, please use with | pmid = 7688428 instead.Attention: This template ( ) is deprecated.To cite the publication identified by PMID 9342336, please use with | pmid = 9342336 instead.Attention: This template ( ) is deprecated.To cite the publication identified by PMID 23078280, please use with | pmid = 23078280 instead.Attention: This template ( ) is deprecated.To cite the publication identified by PMID 10864507, please use with | pmid = 10864507 instead.Attention: This template ( ) is deprecated.
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Michael Levitt , FRS ( ; born 9 May 1947) is an American-British-Israeli-South African 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".International Society for Computational Biology .PMID 23078280 . : CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI ( link ) Xia, Y.; Huang, E.A & C Black. : Unknown parameter |othernames= ignored ( help ) (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) (subscription required) Siegel-Itzkovich, Judy (9 October 2013)."Modellers react to chemistry award: Nobel Prize proves that theorists can measure up to experimenters" .
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South African-born biophysicist (born 1947) 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 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) Siegel-Itzkovich, Judy (9 October 2013). "Modellers react to chemistry award: Nobel Prize proves that theorists can measure up to experimenters" .
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british biophysicist
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south african-born biophysicist and a professor of structural biology at stanford university
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