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Michael Levitt
born 1947 · United States, United Kingdom, Israel · Contemporary
Nobel Chemistry 2013
South-African-born computational chemist who pioneered computer simulation of proteins and multiscale molecular modeling; he shared the 2013 Nobel Prize and works at Stanford.
Nobel Prize work
Shared with Martin Karplus and Arieh Warshel for multiscale models of complex chemical systems: Levitt co-wrote the first computer program that applied classical and quantum mechanics together to simulate large molecules, performed early molecular-dynamics simulations of proteins and developed methods for predicting their structure.
Fields
Related topics
Molecular dynamics (MD)
How numerical integration of Newton’s equations turns an interaction model into molecular trajectories and ensemble averages.
Monte Carlo, QM/MM models
Two complementary tools for molecular systems: statistical sampling by Monte Carlo and a quantum/classical partition for chemically active regions.