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Michael Levitt

1947 - Today

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Michael Levitt, (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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Levitt has received more than 469,814 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Michael Levitt is the 298th most popular chemist (down from 196th in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from South Africa (down from 24th in 2019) and the most popular South African Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Michael Levitt ranks 298 out of 602. Before him are Carl Gustaf Mosander, Richard R. Schrock, C. H. D. Buys Ballot, André-Louis Debierne, Anselme Payen, and Smithson Tennant. After him are Antoine Baumé, Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., Tapputi, Martin Lowry, Leopold Gmelin, and Kristian Birkeland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Michael Levitt ranks 129. Before him are Marc Bolan, Florian Schneider, Noritaka Hidaka, Miguel Ángel González Suárez, Nancy Fraser, and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. After him are Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, Roger De Vlaeminck, Glenn Tipton, Marion Ramsey, Nina Matviienko, and Ry Cooder.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Michael Levitt ranks 33 out of 454. Before him are D. F. Malan (1874), Basil Rathbone (1892), Seymour Papert (1928), Jan Smuts (1870), Abba Eban (1915), and Kgalema Motlanthe (1949). After him are Peter Abrahams (1919), Arnold Vosloo (1962), André Brink (1935), Cetshwayo kaMpande (1826), Kevin Carter (1960), and Andries Pretorius (1798).

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Among CHEMISTS In South Africa

Among chemists born in South Africa, Michael Levitt ranks 1. After him are J. L. B. Smith (1897).

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