Arieh Warshel

Arieh Warshel
Warshel in 2009
Born	(1940-11-20) November 20, 1940 (age 83) Kibbutz Sde Nahum, British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel)[1]
Nationality	Israeli, American[1]
Alma mater	Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Weizmann Institute of Science[1]
Known for	Computer simulation, Computational enzymology, electrostatics, enzyme catalysis
Awards	Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2013)[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Chemistry, biochemistry, biophysics
Institutions	Weizmann Institute of Science[1] University of Southern California[1]
Doctoral advisor	Shneior Lifson
Website	laetro.usc.edu

Arieh Warshel (Hebrew: אריה ורשל; born November 20, 1940) is an Israeli-American biochemist and biophysicist. He is a pioneer in computational studies on functional properties of biological molecules, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and holds the Dana and David Dornsife Chair in Chemistry at the University of Southern California. He received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Michael Levitt and Martin Karplus for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems".^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}