Michael Levitt

Michael Levitt

FRS
Michael Levitt; FRS
	Levitt during the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences press conference in Stockholm in December 2013
Born	9 May 1947; Pretoria, South Africa
Citizenship	American; British; Israeli; South African;
Education	Pretoria Boys High School
Alma mater	King's College London (BScs); University of Cambridge (PhD)
Spouse	Shoshan Brosh
Awards	EMBO Membership (1983); Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2002); Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2013); DeLano Award (2014); ISCB Fellow (2015);
	Scientific career
Fields	Computational Structural Biology; Structure Determination; Simulation of Mesoscale Molecular dynamics;
Institutions	Stanford University; Weizmann Institute of Science; Laboratory of Molecular Biology; University of Cambridge;
Thesis	Conformation analysis of proteins (1972)
Doctoral advisor	Robert Diamond
Notable students	(postdocs); Steven Brenner; Cyrus Chothia; Valerie Daggett; Mark Gerstein; Julian Gough; Ram Samudrala;
Website	med.stanford.edu/profiles/Michael_Levitt

Michael Levitt, FRS (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. Levitt received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Martin Karplus and Arieh Warshel, for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems". In 2018, Levitt was a founding co-editor of the Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science.

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