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He was born on May 9, 1947, in Pretoria, South Africa, to a Jewish family. He studied at King's College London. He graduated in Physics in 1967 from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and later worked at Gonville and Caius Colleges, where he earned his PhD in Computational Biology in 1972. He is a Professor of Biology at Stanford University School of Medicine, California, United States. He became one of the first researchers to carry out molecular dynamics’ simulations of DNA and proteins and developed the first software for this purpose. Recognized for his development of methods for predicting macromolecular structures. On October 9, 2013, Michael Levitt was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, along with Martin Karplus and Arieh Warshel for laying the foundation, in the 1970s, for powerful computer models that allow us to understand and predict complex chemical systems. "These models mirror real life and became crucial for today's most advanced chemistry," according to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.