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Martin Karplus
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Austrian-born American theoretical chemist (1930–2024)
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Martin Karplus was a scientist born on March 15, 1930, and died on December 28, 2024. He received one Nobel Prize.
His work is recognized in several collections, including the Royal Society collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Chemistry collection, and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry2013
“for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Martin
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Vienna
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Sibling
- Robert Karplus
- Occupation
- scientist
- Employer
- University of Strasbourg
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- Linus Pauling
- Field of work
- theoretical chemistry
- Image
- Martin Karplus Nobel Prize 22 2013.jpg
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- Lena Olin
- Commons category
- Martin Karplus
- date of birth
- 1930-01-01
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- date of death
- 2024-12-28
- interested in
- theoretical chemistry
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Encyclopedic overview
Martin Karplus ( German: [ˈmaʁtiːn ˈkaʁplʊs]; March 15, 1930 – December 28, 2024) was an Austrian and American theoretical chemist. He was the Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University. He was also the director of the Biophysical Chemistry Laboratory, a joint laboratory between the French National Center for Scientific Research and the University of Strasbourg, France. Karplus received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel, for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems".
Early life
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