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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 458,290 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Michael Levitt is the 196th most popular chemist (up from 276th in 2019), the 24th most popular biography from South Africa (up from 29th in 2019) and the most popular South African Chemist.

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  • 52

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  • 7.82

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  • 3.30

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Michael Levitt ranks 196 out of 509. Before him are Gerhard Herzberg, Erwin Chargaff, Ahmed Zewail, Otto Wichterle, Johann Deisenhofer, and F. Sherwood Rowland. After him are Archer Martin, Johann Josef Loschmidt, John Fenn, Robert H. Grubbs, William Standish Knowles, and Peter D. Mitchell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Michael Levitt ranks 68. Before him are Bachir Gemayel, Robert Englund, Dwight Schultz, Mariska Veres, Yukio Hatoyama, and Peter Sloterdijk. After him are Dick Fosbury, Stan Kroenke, Danielle Steel, Ron Dennis, Sheikh Hasina, and Carla Del Ponte.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Michael Levitt ranks 24 out of 374. Before him are Allan MacLeod Cormack (1924), P. W. Botha (1916), Cyril Ramaphosa (1952), Jody Scheckter (1950), Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1761), and Sydney Brenner (1927). After him are Steve Biko (1946), Jan Smuts (1870), Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (1936), Seymour Papert (1928), D. F. Malan (1874), and Peter Abrahams (1919).

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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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