Michael Levitt (biophysicist)

Michael Levitt
FRS
Levitt during the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences press conference in Stockholm in December 2013
Born (1947-05-09) 9 May 1947 (age 77)[11]
Pretoria, South Africa
Citizenship
EducationPretoria Boys High School
Alma materKing's College London (BScs)
University of Cambridge (PhD)
SpouseShoshan Brosh[citation needed]
Awards
Honours
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisConformation analysis of proteins (1972)
Doctoral advisorRobert Diamond[5][6]
Notable students
Websitemed.stanford.edu/profiles/Michael_Levitt

Michael Levitt, FRS[14] (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.[15][16] Levitt received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry,[17] together with Martin Karplus and Arieh Warshel, for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems".[18][19][20][21] In 2018, Levitt was a founding co-editor of the Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science.[22]

  1. ^ Anon (1983). "Michael Levitt EMBO profile". people.embo.org. Heidelberg: European Molecular Biology Organization.
  2. ^ Anon (2017). "ISCB Fellows". iscb.org. International Society for Computational Biology. Archived from the original on 20 March 2017.
  3. ^ Levitt, M. (2001). "The birth of computational structural biology". Nature Structural Biology. 8 (5): 392–393. doi:10.1038/87545. PMID 11323711. S2CID 6519868.
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  6. ^ Diamond, R.; Levitt, M. (1971). "A refinement of the structure of lysozyme". Biochemical Journal. 125 (4): 92P. doi:10.1042/bj1250092Pa. PMC 1178298. PMID 5144255.
  7. ^ Daggett, V.; Levitt, M. (1993). "Protein Unfolding Pathways Explored Through Molecular Dynamics Simulations". Journal of Molecular Biology. 232 (2): 600–619. doi:10.1006/jmbi.1993.1414. PMID 7688428. S2CID 2341877.
  8. ^ Gerstein, M.; Levitt, M. (1997). "A structural census of the current population of protein sequences". PNAS. 94 (22): 11911–11916. Bibcode:1997PNAS...9411911G. doi:10.1073/pnas.94.22.11911. PMC 23653. PMID 9342336.
  9. ^ Pethica, R. B.; Levitt, M.; Gough, J. (2012). "Evolutionarily consistent families in SCOP: Sequence, structure and function". BMC Structural Biology. 12: 27. doi:10.1186/1472-6807-12-27. PMC 3495643. PMID 23078280.
  10. ^ Xia, Y.; Huang, E. S.; Levitt, M.; Samudrala, R. (2000). "Ab initio construction of protein tertiary structures using a hierarchical approach". Journal of Molecular Biology. 300 (1): 171–185. doi:10.1006/jmbi.2000.3835. PMID 10864507.
  11. ^ Anon (2003). "Levitt, Prof. Michael". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U42816. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  12. ^ a b c d Siegel-Itzkovich, Judy (9 October 2013). "Two American Israelis and US jew share Nobel Prize in Chemistry". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  13. ^ "Nvidia chief Jensen Huang, film star Tony Leung to get honorary doctorates in Hong Kong". South China Morning Post.
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  15. ^ "Levitt Lab Server | Computational Structural Biology". Csb.stanford.edu. Archived from the original on 25 March 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  16. ^ "Michael Levitt". Csb.stanford.edu\accessdate=2017-03-22. Archived from the original on 15 July 2010.
  17. ^ Van Noorden, Richard (2013). "Modellers react to chemistry award: Nobel Prize proves that theorists can measure up to experimenters". Nature. 502 (7471): 280. Bibcode:2013Natur.502..280V. doi:10.1038/502280a. PMID 24132265.
  18. ^ Van Noorden, R. (2013). "Computer modellers secure chemistry Nobels". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2013.13903. S2CID 211729791.
  19. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013" (PDF) (Press release). Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. 9 October 2013. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
  20. ^ Chang, Kenneth (9 October 2013). "3 Researchers Win Nobel Prize in Chemistry". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
  21. ^ "Michael Levitt – Facts". Nobelprize.org. 9 May 1947. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  22. ^ Altman, Russ B.; Levitt, Michael (2018). "What is Biomedical Data Science and do We Need an Annual Review of It?". Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science. 1: i–iii. doi:10.1146/annurev-bd-01-041718-100001.