Two American Israelis and US Jew share Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Two Israeli professors who currently live in the US won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Wednesday, sharing the award with an Austrian-American Jewish professor.
Prof. Arieh Warshel, who was born in Israel and now lives in California, and Prof. Michael Levitt, a South African native who made aliya and now splits his time between the US and Israel, are sharing the prize – and the $1.25 million – with Prof. Martin Karplus, an Austrian native who fled to the US before the Holocaust.
Warshel and Levitt are Israel’s 11th and 12th Nobel Prize laureates.
Karplus’s daughter Rebecca, a family doctor who lives in Jerusalem, said on Wednesday evening that she heard of her father’s winning the Nobel prize on her car radio.
The three men were cited for their “development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems.”
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