Martin Karplus

Martin Karplus
Martin Karplus
	Nobel Prize Laureate Martin Karplus during press conference in Stockholm, December 2013
Born	March 15, 1930; Vienna, Austria
Citizenship	American, Austrian
Education	Harvard University (AB); California Institute of Technology (PhD);
Awards	Irving Langmuir Award (1987); Award in Theoretical Chemistry (1993) ForMemRS (2000); Linus Pauling Award (2004); Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2013);
	Scientific career
Institutions	Université de Strasbourg; Harvard University; Columbia University; University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign;
Thesis	A quantum-mechanical discussion of the bifluoride ion (1954)
Doctoral advisor	Linus Pauling
Website	isis.unistra.fr/biophysical-chemistry-laboratory-martin-karplus/

Martin Karplus (German: [ˈmaʁˌtin ˈkaʁplus]; born March 15, 1930) is an Austrian and American theoretical chemist. He is the Director of the Biophysical Chemistry Laboratory, a joint laboratory between the French National Center for Scientific Research and the University of Strasbourg, France. He is also the Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry, emeritus at Harvard University. 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".

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