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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 425

Martin Karplus

Martin Karplus, left, and Austria’s U.S. ambassador, Hans Peter Manz, at the opening of an exhibition of Karplus’ photographs at the Austrian Embassy in Washington, Jan. 14, 2015. (Peter Cutts/Austrian Cultural Forum/JTA)
February 3, 2015, 12:50 am
Nobel laureate Martin Karplus’ photos on show in country he fled
The chemist left Austria as a boy with his parents. After winning the Nobel, the country graciously invited him back
By Menachem Wecker
Alice Herz-Sommer, pictured here on her 107th birthday, was the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary. She died at 110. (Polly Hancock/JTA)
September 24, 2014, 4:36 pm
The Jews who inspired us in 5774
From age eight to 111, these individuals and groups moved the Jewish world
By JTA
Ahmet Uzumcu, right, Director General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons receives the Nobel Peace Prize from Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Thorbjorn Jagland in City Hall Oslo Tuesday Dec. 10, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Cornelius Poppe / NTB scanpix)
December 10, 2013, 10:09 pm
Weapons watchdog receives Nobel Peace Prize
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons was formed to enforce international convention outlawing non-conventional arms
By Karl Ritter and NILS MYKLEBOST
Israeli chemist Arieh Warshel accepts the Nobel Prize in Stockholm, Sweden, Tuesday, December 10, 2013 (screen capture: Channel 2)
December 10, 2013, 6:44 pm
Israeli professors awarded Nobel Prize in Stockholm
Arieh Warshel and Michael Levitt won the award for development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems
By Adiv Sterman
From left to right, 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry winners Arieh Warshel, Michael Levitt and Martin Karplus. (photo credit: CC BY Wikipedia, Harvard University)
October 10, 2013, 12:57 pm
Putting the ‘no’ in Nobel
Israeli papers are a strange mix of pride and gloom over Israel’s (non) win of two Nobel prizes in chemistry
By Joshua Davidovich
Martin Karplus at his home in Cambridge, Mass., after being awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Josh Reynolds)
October 10, 2013, 1:01 am
Daughter of non-Israeli Nobel chemistry winner lives in Israel
Rebecca Karplus, a family physician and internal medicine specialist, has worked in medical field here for three decades
By Adiv Sterman
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a phone call with Nobel Prize winner Arieh Warshel, Wednesday, October 9, 2013 (photo credit: YouTube screen capture)
October 9, 2013, 6:51 pm
PM, president laud Israeli Nobel prize winner
Peres says the achievements of Prof. Arieh Warshel will no doubt contribute to further scientific advances
By Adiv Sterman
The Nobel chemistry medal (photo credit: Courtesy)
October 9, 2013, 2:45 pm
Tiny Israel a Nobel heavyweight, especially in chemistry
Latest Israeli laureates, Arieh Warshel and Michael Levitt, are the fifth and sixth winners of the chemistry prize in under a decade
By Haviv Rettig Gur
From left to right, 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry winners Arieh Warshel, Michael Levitt and Martin Karplus (photo credit: CC BY Wikipedia, Harvard University)
October 9, 2013, 12:53 pm
3 Jewish professors — two of them Israeli — share 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry
Kibbutz-born Arieh Warshel fought in ’67 and ’73 wars; Pretoria-born Michael Levitt taught at the Weizmann Institute for most of the 1980s; Martin Karplus fled as a child to the US from Nazi-occupied Austria. Prestigious prize awarded ‘for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems’
By Gavriel Fiske
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