Michael Levitt
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Michael Levitt FRS {born 9 May 1947 in Pretoria, South Africa} is a British biophysicist. He has been Professor of Structural Biology, Stanford University, California, since 1987.
[edit] Education
- King's College London (BSc Physics 1967)
- Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (PhD Computational Biology 1972).
[edit] Career
- Royal Society Exchange Fellow, Weizmann Institute, Israel, 1967-68
- Staff Scientist, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, 1973-80
- Professor of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute, 1980-87.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2001.
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