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| workplaces = | alma_mater = | thesis_title = Conformation analysis of proteins | thesis_url = http://ulmss-newton.lib.cam.ac.uk/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=10796 | thesis_year = 1972 | doctoral_advisor = Robert Diamond〔 〕〔 | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | footnotes = | spouse = Rina〔(Michael Levitt - Photo Gallery )〕 | website = }} Michael Levitt, FRS (born 9 May 1947) is an American-British-Israeli〔(2 Israeli-Americans awarded Nobel Prize in chemistry ) 9 October 2013, 16:36, Ynet〕 biophysicist and a professor of structural biology at Stanford University, a position he has held since 1987.〔http://csb.stanford.edu/ Levitt Lab website〕〔http://csb.stanford.edu/levitt/ Lab Website Profile Page〕 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".〔(Official Nobelprize.org Michael Levitt site, interview and pictures )〕〔(Biography ), from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, United States Department of Energy〕 == Education and early life == Michael Levitt was born in Pretoria, South Africa, to a Jewish family from Plungė, Lithuania; his father was Lithuanian and his mother was of Czech descent.〔(Foreign Minister congratulates Litvak Levitt on winning Nobel Prize )〕 He attended Sunnyside Primary School and then Pretoria Boys High School between 1960 and 1962. The family moved to England when he was 15.〔(Nobel laureate Michael Levitt tells Haaretz: 'I still feel 16, so I have no ego’ )〕 Levitt spent 1963 studying applied mathematics at the University of Pretoria.〔(Nobel laureate Michael Levitt recollects UP’s contribution to his scientific career ), University of Pretoria〕 He attended King's College London, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics in 1967.〔〔http://csb.stanford.edu/levitt/2_Page_CV.html Michael Levitt CV〕 In 1967, he visited Israel for the first time. Together with his Israeli wife, Rina,〔 a multimedia artist, he left to study at Cambridge, where his three children were born. In 1979, he returned to Israel and conducted research at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, becoming an Israeli citizen in 1980. He served in the Israeli Defense Forces for six weeks in 1985. In 1986, he began teaching at Stanford, and since then has split his time between Israel and California.〔(Nobel laureate Michael Levitt tells Haaretz: 'I still feel 16, so I have no ego’ )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Levitt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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