5th edition. Boston, United States 2018
Prof. Martin KARPLUS
Prof. Martin KARPLUS
Present Positions:
Theodore William Richards Research Professor, Harvard University, l999-2004 T. W. Richards Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, Harvard University, 2004-present Professeur Conventionné, Université Louis Pasteur (now Université de Strasbourg), Strasbourg, 1995-present
Education:
Harvard College, B.A., 1950
California Institute of Technology, Ph.D., 1953 (with Linus Pauling)
Oxford University, Postdoctoral Fellow, 1953-55 (with C.A. Coulson)
Professional Career:
National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Oxford University, 1953-55
Instructor 1955-57, Assistant Professor 1957-60, Associate Professor 1960, University of Illinois
Associate Professor 1960-63, Professor 1963-66, Columbia University
Professor, Harvard University, 1966-1979
Professeur Associé, Université de Paris-Sud, 1972-73
Professeur, Université de Paris VII, 1974-75
Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University, l979-1999
Professeur Associé, Université de Paris-Sud, 1980-81
Professeur, Collège de France, Paris, 1980-81, 1987-88
Professeur Associé, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, 1992, 1994-95
Eastman Professor, Oxford University, 1999-2000
Linnett Visiting Professor, Cambridge University, Fall 2003
Honors & Awards:
Antonio Feltrinelli International Prize for Chemistry from Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 2011
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2013
Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013
Commandeur de la Legion d’Honneur, 2014
Doctor Honoris Causa, Bar-Ilan University, 2014
Memberships:
American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 1966
National Academy of Sciences, 1967
International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, 1967
Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences (foreign member), 1991
The Royal Society, U.K. (foreign member), 2000
Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013
Research Field:
The research of Dr. Karplus is in theoretical chemistry, including the electronic interpretation of NMR and ESR spectra of molecules, the development of techniques for the evaluation of molecular properties, and the formulation of detailed models for chemical reactions. His recent work is concerned with molecules that play an important role in living systems.