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Martin Karplus
born 1930 · United States, Austria · Born 1900–1939
Nobel Chemistry 2013
Shared the 2013 prize for multiscale models of complex chemical systems and gave the Karplus equation used in NMR.
Nobel-winning work
For the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems. Karplus co-authored the first molecular dynamics simulation of a protein (1977) and helped pioneer QM/MM methods that treat the reactive core with quantum mechanics while the surroundings follow classical force fields, opening the way to realistic simulations of enzymes and biomolecules.