2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner: Who is Martin Karplus?

Martin Karplus (15 March 1930); He was born in Vienna, Austria. The Karplus family had to emigrate from the country they lived in due to the German occupation. After spending a few months in Switzerland and France during the migration, they immigrated to the United States in March 1938. Martin Karplus's grandfather, Johan Paul Karplus (1866-1936), was a highly acclaimed, successful, intellectual professor of psychiatry in Vienna.

Theodor W Adorna, the nephew of Johan Paul Karplus's wife, continued their lives in America as a famous sociologist, philosopher, and musicologist, and his grandson Robert von Lieben as a physicist.

Martin Karplus (born March 15, 1930) is an Austrian and American theoretical chemist. He is the Director of the Biophysical Chemistry Laboratory, a joint laboratory between the French National Center for Scientific Research and the University of Strasbourg, France. He is also the Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry, emeritus at Harvard University. Karplus received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel, for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems".

Martin Karplus graduated from Harvard College in 1950. In 1953, he received his doctorate from the California Institute of Technology. He studied with two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling at the California Institute of Technology. According to Linus Pauling, his brightest student was Martin. Martin Karplus has worked in many fields, including physical chemistry. In these studies, he worked on nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, chemical dynamics, quantum chemistry, and most importantly molecular dynamics simulations on biological macromolecules.

Martin Karplus's current research concerns primarily the properties of biological molecules. Martin Karplus is a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences. He worked as a professor at the University of Illinois (1955-1960), Columbia University (1960-1967) and finally Harvard University. He received the Christian Amfinsen Award in 2001. Martin Karplus is currently retired and continues to work as a corporate chemist at Harvard University.

Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt, and Arieh Warshel together won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2013. The reason for the award was "the development of multi-scale models for complex chemical systems".

They made this chemical discovery by working together at the Weizmann Science Institute. Because chemical reactions developed so quickly and quickly, scientists had difficulty observing the developments between reactions.

In the statement made by the Royal Swedish Academy, it was said that "they have helped develop programs that will explain the chemical processes of exhaust smoke purification or photosynthesis of green leaves."