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Michael Levitt

1947 - Today

Michael Levitt

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". In 2018, Levitt was a founding co-editor of the Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Levitt is the 117th most popular chemist (up from 298th in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from South Africa (up from 33rd in 2019) and the most popular South African Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Michael Levitt ranks 117 out of 602. Before him are Irving Langmuir, Manfred Eigen, Melvin Calvin, Avram Hershko, Claude Louis Berthollet, and Gilbert N. Lewis. After him are Lars Onsager, Carl Ferdinand Cori, Edward W. Morley, William Crookes, George Porter, and Richard Kuhn.

Most Popular Chemists in Wikipedia

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Irving Langmuir
1881 - 1957
HPI: 73.16
Rank: 111
Manfred Eigen
1927 - 2019
HPI: 73.15
Rank: 112
Melvin Calvin
1911 - 1997
HPI: 73.09
Rank: 113
Avram Hershko
1937 - Present
HPI: 73.09
Rank: 114
Claude Louis Berthollet
1748 - 1822
HPI: 73.03
Rank: 115
Gilbert N. Lewis
1875 - 1946
HPI: 72.97
Rank: 116
Michael Levitt
1947 - Present
HPI: 72.94
Rank: 117
Lars Onsager
1903 - 1976
HPI: 72.82
Rank: 118
Carl Ferdinand Cori
1896 - 1984
HPI: 72.81
Rank: 119
Edward W. Morley
1838 - 1923
HPI: 72.77
Rank: 120
William Crookes
1832 - 1919
HPI: 72.68
Rank: 121
George Porter
1920 - 2002
HPI: 72.62
Rank: 122
Richard Kuhn
1900 - 1967
HPI: 72.54
Rank: 123

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Michael Levitt ranks 35. Before him are Salman Rushdie, Takeshi Kitano, Gerd Binnig, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Paco de Lucía, and France Gall. After him are Michael Porter, Josep Borrell, Linda B. Buck, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kevin Farrell, and Tom Clancy.

Others Born in 1947

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Salman Rushdie
WRITER
1947 - Present
HPI: 74.40
Rank: 29
Takeshi Kitano
FILM DIRECTOR
1947 - Present
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 30
Gerd Binnig
PHYSICIST
1947 - Present
HPI: 73.15
Rank: 31
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
BIOLOGIST
1947 - Present
HPI: 73.09
Rank: 32
Paco de Lucía
MUSICIAN
1947 - 2014
HPI: 73.06
Rank: 33
France Gall
SINGER
1947 - 2018
HPI: 72.97
Rank: 34
Michael Levitt
CHEMIST
1947 - Present
HPI: 72.94
Rank: 35
Michael Porter
ECONOMIST
1947 - Present
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 36
Josep Borrell
POLITICIAN
1947 - Present
HPI: 72.83
Rank: 37
Linda B. Buck
BIOLOGIST
1947 - Present
HPI: 72.70
Rank: 38
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
BASKETBALL PLAYER
1947 - Present
HPI: 72.57
Rank: 39
Kevin Farrell
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1947 - Present
HPI: 72.27
Rank: 40
Tom Clancy
WRITER
1947 - 2013
HPI: 72.02
Rank: 41