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Martin Karplus
Martin Karplus 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…
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science · Austrian-American chemist (1930–2024) · theoretical chemist · university teacher · biophysicist · chemist · scientist · also Martin Karplus, M. Karplus, M Karplus, Karplus, Karplus M, Karplus M.
Born 15 March 1930 · Died 28 December 2024 · Q903471
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2024· 1 entry
2016· 1 entry
Awarded Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (2016).
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded honorary citizen of Vienna (2015).
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2013· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems.
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"Development of Multiscale Models for Complex Chemical Systems From H+H2 to Biomolecules"
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2013).
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded Clarivate Citation Laureates (2011).
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded Linus Pauling Award (2004).
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And the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2013
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded ACS Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research (2001).
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2000).
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1996· 1 entry
Where he established a research group in Strasbourg, France, after two sabbatical visits between 1992 and 1995 in the NMR laboratory of Jean-François Lefèvre
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded ACS Award in Theoretical Chemistry (1993).
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1991· 1 entry
And was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2000
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics (1987).
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1974· 1 entry
Karplus, Warshel and other collaborators published a paper based on this type of modeling, which successfully modeled the change in shape of retinal, a molecule important to vision
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1970· 1 entry
Postdoctoral fellow Arieh Warshel joined Karplus at Harvard
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1953· 1 entry
Studied at California Institute of Technology, Doctor of Philosophy (1950–1953).
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1951· 1 entry
Karplus pursued graduate studies at the California Institute of Technology
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1950· 1 entry
Studied at Harvard University, Bachelor of Arts (1947–1950).
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1930· 1 entry
Born 1930-03-15.
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