1947 - Today
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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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.
1904 - 1999
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 190
1905 - 2002
HPI: 60.43
Rank: 191
1946 - 2016
HPI: 60.36
Rank: 192
1913 - 1998
HPI: 60.36
Rank: 193
1943 - Present
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 194
1927 - 2012
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 195
1947 - Present
HPI: 60.27
Rank: 196
1910 - 2002
HPI: 60.23
Rank: 197
1821 - 1895
HPI: 60.22
Rank: 198
1917 - 2010
HPI: 60.21
Rank: 199
1942 - 2021
HPI: 60.19
Rank: 200
1917 - 2012
HPI: 60.16
Rank: 201
1920 - 1992
HPI: 60.16
Rank: 202
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.
1947 - 1982
HPI: 60.97
Rank: 62
1947 - Present
HPI: 60.61
Rank: 63
1947 - Present
HPI: 60.58
Rank: 64
1947 - 2006
HPI: 60.48
Rank: 65
1947 - Present
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 66
1947 - Present
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 67
1947 - Present
HPI: 60.27
Rank: 68
1947 - 2023
HPI: 60.23
Rank: 69
1947 - Present
HPI: 60.13
Rank: 70
1947 - Present
HPI: 59.86
Rank: 71
1947 - Present
HPI: 59.55
Rank: 72
1947 - Present
HPI: 59.34
Rank: 73
1947 - Present
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 74
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).
1924 - 1998
HPI: 61.71
Rank: 18
1916 - 2006
HPI: 61.39
Rank: 19
1952 - Present
HPI: 61.29
Rank: 20
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.19
Rank: 21
1761 - 1836
HPI: 61.10
Rank: 22
1927 - 2019
HPI: 60.99
Rank: 23
1947 - Present
HPI: 60.27
Rank: 24
1946 - 1977
HPI: 59.96
Rank: 25
1870 - 1950
HPI: 59.62
Rank: 26
1936 - 2018
HPI: 59.39
Rank: 27
1928 - 2016
HPI: 58.44
Rank: 28
1874 - 1959
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 29
1919 - 2017
HPI: 57.66
Rank: 30
Among chemists born in South Africa, Michael Levitt ranks 1. After him are J. L. B. Smith (1897).