Martin Karplus was an Austrian and American theoretical chemist. He was the Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University. He was also the director of the Biophysical Chemistry Laboratory, a joint laboratory between the French National Center for Scientific Research and the University of Strasbourg, France. 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". The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013, announced October 9, 2013. Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt, and Arieh Warshel, “for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems”. Martin Karplus: born 1930, Vienna, Austria. Michael Levitt: born 1947, Pretoria, South Africa. Arieh Warshel: born 1940, Kibbutz Sde-Nahum, British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel). Wiki link Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).