The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013 was awarded jointly to Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel “for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems”.
Martin Karplus Facts:
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 Facts:
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 Facts:
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”
News Source: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2013/
