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Michael Levitt

Michael Levitt
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Levitt during the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences press conference in Stockholm in December 2013
Born9 May 1947 
     (aged 79)
[1]
Pretoria, South Africa
Citizenship
EducationPretoria Boys High School
Alma materKing's College London (BScs)
University of Cambridge (PhD)
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisConformation analysis of proteins (1972)
Notable students
Websitecsb.stanford.edu/levitt
med.stanford.edu/profiles/Michael_Levitt

Michael Levitt, (Hebrew: מיכאל לויט; born 9 May 1947) is a South African biophysicist. He is a professor of structural biology at Stanford University, a position he has held since 1987.[11][12] Levitt received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[13]

References

  1. ↑ LEVITT, Prof. Michael. Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com 2003A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. closed access (subscription needed)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Siegel-Itzkovich, Judy (9 October 2013). "Two American Israelis and US jew share Nobel Prize in Chemistry". The Jerusalem Post. http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-Features/Israeli-scientists-awarded-Nobel-Prize-in-Chemistry-328246. Retrieved 12 November 2017. 
  3. ↑ Anon. Michael Levitt EMBO profile. people.embo.org (1983). Heidelberg: European Molecular Biology Organization.
  4. ↑ Anon. ISCB Fellows. iscb.org (2017)International Society for Computational Biology.
  5. ↑ Levitt, M.. The birth of computational structural biology. Nature Structural Biology 8 (5) (2001). p. 392–393. doi:10.1038/87545.
  6. ↑ Diamond, R.. A refinement of the structure of lysozyme. Biochemical Journal 125 (4) (1971). p. 92P. doi:10.1042/bj1250092Pa.
  7. ↑ Daggett, V.. Protein Unfolding Pathways Explored Through Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Journal of Molecular Biology 232 (2) (1993). p. 600–619. doi:10.1006/jmbi.1993.1414.
  8. ↑ Gerstein, M.. A structural census of the current population of protein sequences. PNAS 94 (22) (1997). p. 11911–11916. doi:10.1073/pnas.94.22.11911.
  9. ↑ Pethica, R. B.. Evolutionarily consistent families in SCOP: Sequence, structure and function. BMC Structural Biology 12 (2012). p. 27. doi:10.1186/1472-6807-12-27.
  10. ↑ Xia, Y.. Ab initio construction of protein tertiary structures using a hierarchical approach. Journal of Molecular Biology 300 (1) (2000). p. 171–185. doi:10.1006/jmbi.2000.3835.
  11. ↑ Levitt Lab Server | Computational Structural Biology. Csb.stanford.edu. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  12. ↑ Michael Levitt. Csb.stanford.edu\accessdate=2017-03-22.
  13. ↑ Van Noorden, Richard. Modellers react to chemistry award: Nobel Prize proves that theorists can measure up to experimenters. Nature 502 (7471) (2013). p. 280. doi:10.1038/502280a.
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