Martin Karplus (1930–), Theoretical Chemist.

Martin Karplus is a theoretical chemist and Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. For the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2013 (with Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel). Karplus was born in Vienna, Austria in 1930 and fled Austria a few days after the Anschluss in 1938 with his family at the age of eight. He graduated from Harvard College in 1950 and earned his Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology under the supervision of Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, who called Karplus his most brilliant student. Martin Karplus has supervised over 200 graduate students and post-docs during his career at the University of Illinois, Columbia University, and Harvard University. His brother, Robert Karplus, was an internationally recognized physicist at the University of California, Berkeley.