Karplus, Martin

Martin Karplus was born in Grinzing in Vienna in a Jewish family; after the Anschluss in 1938, he escaped from the Nazis through Switzerland to the USA with his mother and brother (his father was arrested at that time). His family has been associated with medicine for decades, his grandfather, (1866-1936), was a famous neurophysiologist, professor of neurology and psychiatry , lived in the Lieben-Auschitz family palace ; another grandfather, a native of Odessa, Samuil Abramovich Goldstein (1865-1939), was a rheumatologist and director of the famous Vienna clinic and mud clinic “Fango Heilanstalt” (Wien IX, Lazarethgasse 20) ^{[3] [4] [5] [6] [7]} . Upon arrival in the United States, the family settled in a suburb of Boston Brighton , where his father’s elder brother, engineer and inventor of the Variak transformer (1933), Eduard Karplus (1899-1979) ^{[8] [9]} , already lived.

Karlus received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University in 1950. After that, he worked together with Linus Pauling at the California Institute of Technology , where in 1953 he received a Ph.D. In 1953-1955, Karplus worked at the University of Oxford together with from the National Science Foundation . Since 1995, Karplus holds a professorship at the University of Strasbourg ^{[10] [11]} .

Karplus' research touches upon such branches of science as physical chemistry , NMR spectroscopy , chemical kinetics, quantum chemistry, and, first of all, the classical molecular dynamics method as applied to modeling biological macromolecules. In addition, Karplus conducted various studies of spin-spin interaction and EPR . In honor of Karplus, the is described, which describes the correlation between the interaction constant and the dihedral angle in .

Now Karplus is engaged in research of the properties of molecules of biological objects. His group is developing the program for the classical molecular dynamics method. Karplus is a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences. Since 1955, Karplus has trained more than 200 scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Columbia and Harvard Universities .

• (1987)
• Guggenheim Scholarship (1987) ^[12]
• Edgar Fahs Smith Lecture, University of Pennsylvania (1997)
• 2004]
• Feltrinelli Prize (2011)
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2013)

• Parents are Hans Karplus (1898-1971) and Isabella Goldstein (1900-1967) ^[13] .
• The elder brother, (1927-1990), was a theoretical physicist and professor at the University of California at Berkeley .
• Uncle - a child psychologist and teacher Ernst Papanek ( Eng. Ernst Papanek , 1900-1973) ^[14] .
• First wife - Susan Karplus (née Sherman), theoretical chemist, student of Schneur Lifson at the Weizmann Institute ; daughters Rebecca and Tamar, doctors.
• Second wife - Marcy Anna Karplus (née Hazard); Mischa's son ( born Mischa H. Karplus , born 1981), a lawyer ^{[15] [16]} .