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Nobel Laureate Martin Karplus ’51 Remembered as Attentive Mentor, ‘Pioneering’ Chemist
Martin Karplus ’51 developed ground-breaking computer models to study chemical reactions and molecular dynamics, mentored hundreds of scientists, and won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
But his love for the sciences began with another discipline — biology.
“That’s not something that just came out of the blue,” former colleague J. Andrew McCammon — a chemist at the University of California, San Diego — said.
“As a young boy he got a microscope, and was thrilled with that.”
Karplus, who was a Chemistry professor at Harvard, died on Dec. 28, , at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was
His friends, family, and students recalled him as a man of many talents and passions — from his research in chemistry and his love for biology to his thoughtful mentorship of hundreds of students.
“Science and society are so much better off because Martin Karplus lived,” wrote former colleague and friend Robert J.
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