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                  Israeli Professor shares 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

                  Thre threee winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013: Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel.

                  Israeli Professor shares 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

                  09.10.2013, Science

                  Israeli professor Arieh Warshel on Wednesday won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, jointly with US Professors Martin Karplus and Michael Levitt "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems", the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced in Stockholm.
                  The prize amount is of 8 million Swedish crowns ($1.25 million or 916,000 €).
                  "Computer models mirroring real life have become crucial for most advances made in chemistry today," the Academy added.
                  Warshel, who has also American citinzenship, was born in 1940 in kibbutz Sde Nahum. A Ph.D from the Weizmann Institute of Sciences in Rehovot, he is a distinguished professor at University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
                  It should be noted that Michael Levitt, from Stanford University, has US, British and Israeli citizenships. He was a postdoctoral scholar at the Weizmann Institute of Sciencze in Rehovot, Israel.
                  Here is the list of Nobel Prize in Chemistry Laureates since the first Nobel Prize was awarded in December 1902 in Stockholm to Wilhelm Roentgen, the discoverer of X-rays.

                  1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
                  1906 - Henri Moissan
                  1910 - Otto Wallach
                  1915 - Richard Willstaetter
                  1918 - Fritz Haber
                  1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
                  1961 - Melvin Calvin
                  1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
                  1972 - William Howard Stein
                  1977 - Ilya Prigogine
                  1979 - Herbert Charles Brown
                  1980 - Paul Berg and Walter Gilbert
                  1981 - Roald Hoffmann
                  1982 - Aaron Klug
                  1985 - Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle
                  1989 - Sidney Altman
                  1992 - Rudolph Marcus
                  1998 - Walter Kohn
                  2004 - Avram Hershko, Aaron Ciechanover and Irwin Rose
                  2006 - Roger Kornberg
                  2009 - Ada Yonath
                  2011 - Daniel Schechtman
                  2012 - Robert Lefkowitz
                  Here is the list of previous Israeli winners of a Nobel Prize :
                  · Dan Shechtman, Chemistry, 2011
                  · Ada E. Yonath, Chemistry, 2009,
                  · Robert John Aumann, Economics, 2005
                  · Aaron Ciechanover, Chemistry, 2004
                  · Avram Hershko, Chemistry, 2004
                  · Daniel Kahneman, Economics, 2002
                  · Yitzhak Rabin, Peace, 1994
                  · Shimon Peres, Peace, 1994
                  · Menachem Begin, Peace, 1978
                  · Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Literature, 1966

                  by: Maud Swinnen Israeli professor Arieh Warshel on Wednesday won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, jointly with US Professors Martin Karplus and Michael Levitt "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems", the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced in Stockholm.
                  The prize amount is of 8 million Swedish crowns ($1.25 million or 916,000 €).
                  "Computer models mirroring real life have become crucial for most advances made in chemistry today," the Academy added.
                  Warshel, who has also American citinzenship, was born in 1940 in kibbutz Sde Nahum. A Ph.D from the Weizmann Institute of Sciences in Rehovot, he is a distinguished professor at University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
                  It should be noted that Michael Levitt, from Stanford University, has US, British and Israeli citizenships. He was a postdoctoral scholar at the Weizmann Institute of Sciencze in Rehovot, Israel.
                  Here is the list of Nobel Prize in Chemistry Laureates since the first Nobel Prize was awarded in December 1902 in Stockholm to Wilhelm Roentgen, the discoverer of X-rays.

                  1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
                  1906 - Henri Moissan
                  1910 - Otto Wallach
                  1915 - Richard Willstaetter
                  1918 - Fritz Haber
                  1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
                  1961 - Melvin Calvin
                  1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
                  1972 - William Howard Stein
                  1977 - Ilya Prigogine
                  1979 - Herbert Charles Brown
                  1980 - Paul Berg and Walter Gilbert
                  1981 - Roald Hoffmann
                  1982 - Aaron Klug
                  1985 - Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle
                  1989 - Sidney Altman
                  1992 - Rudolph Marcus
                  1998 - Walter Kohn
                  2004 - Avram Hershko, Aaron Ciechanover and Irwin Rose
                  2006 - Roger Kornberg
                  2009 - Ada Yonath
                  2011 - Daniel Schechtman
                  2012 - Robert Lefkowitz
                  Here is the list of previous Israeli winners of a Nobel Prize :
                  · Dan Shechtman, Chemistry, 2011
                  · Ada E. Yonath, Chemistry, 2009,
                  · Robert John Aumann, Economics, 2005
                  · Aaron Ciechanover, Chemistry, 2004
                  · Avram Hershko, Chemistry, 2004
                  · Daniel Kahneman, Economics, 2002
                  · Yitzhak Rabin, Peace, 1994
                  · Shimon Peres, Peace, 1994
                  · Menachem Begin, Peace, 1978
                  · Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Literature, 1966

                   

                  by: Maud Swinnen

                  EJP