Israeli professor Arieh Warshel on Wednesday won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, jointly with US Professors Martin Karplus and Michael Levitt "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems", the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced in Stockholm.
The prize amount is of 8 million Swedish crowns ($1.25 million or 916,000 €).
"Computer models mirroring real life have become crucial for most advances made in chemistry today," the Academy added.
Warshel, who has also American citinzenship, was born in 1940 in kibbutz Sde Nahum. A Ph.D from the Weizmann Institute of Sciences in Rehovot, he is a distinguished professor at University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
It should be noted that Michael Levitt, from Stanford University, has US, British and Israeli citizenships. He was a postdoctoral scholar at the Weizmann Institute of Sciencze in Rehovot, Israel.
Here is the list of Nobel Prize in Chemistry Laureates since the first Nobel Prize was awarded in December 1902 in Stockholm to Wilhelm Roentgen, the discoverer of X-rays.

1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
1906 - Henri Moissan
1910 - Otto Wallach
1915 - Richard Willstaetter
1918 - Fritz Haber
1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
1961 - Melvin Calvin
1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
1972 - William Howard Stein
1977 - Ilya Prigogine
1979 - Herbert Charles Brown
1980 - Paul Berg and Walter Gilbert
1981 - Roald Hoffmann
1982 - Aaron Klug
1985 - Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle
1989 - Sidney Altman
1992 - Rudolph Marcus
1998 - Walter Kohn
2004 - Avram Hershko, Aaron Ciechanover and Irwin Rose
2006 - Roger Kornberg
2009 - Ada Yonath
2011 - Daniel Schechtman
2012 - Robert Lefkowitz
Here is the list of previous Israeli winners of a Nobel Prize :
· Dan Shechtman, Chemistry, 2011
· Ada E. Yonath, Chemistry, 2009,
· Robert John Aumann, Economics, 2005
· Aaron Ciechanover, Chemistry, 2004
· Avram Hershko, Chemistry, 2004
· Daniel Kahneman, Economics, 2002
· Yitzhak Rabin, Peace, 1994
· Shimon Peres, Peace, 1994
· Menachem Begin, Peace, 1978
· Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Literature, 1966

by: Maud Swinnen Israeli professor Arieh Warshel on Wednesday won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, jointly with US Professors Martin Karplus and Michael Levitt "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems", the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced in Stockholm.
The prize amount is of 8 million Swedish crowns ($1.25 million or 916,000 €).
"Computer models mirroring real life have become crucial for most advances made in chemistry today," the Academy added.
Warshel, who has also American citinzenship, was born in 1940 in kibbutz Sde Nahum. A Ph.D from the Weizmann Institute of Sciences in Rehovot, he is a distinguished professor at University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
It should be noted that Michael Levitt, from Stanford University, has US, British and Israeli citizenships. He was a postdoctoral scholar at the Weizmann Institute of Sciencze in Rehovot, Israel.
Here is the list of Nobel Prize in Chemistry Laureates since the first Nobel Prize was awarded in December 1902 in Stockholm to Wilhelm Roentgen, the discoverer of X-rays.

1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
1906 - Henri Moissan
1910 - Otto Wallach
1915 - Richard Willstaetter
1918 - Fritz Haber
1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
1961 - Melvin Calvin
1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
1972 - William Howard Stein
1977 - Ilya Prigogine
1979 - Herbert Charles Brown
1980 - Paul Berg and Walter Gilbert
1981 - Roald Hoffmann
1982 - Aaron Klug
1985 - Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle
1989 - Sidney Altman
1992 - Rudolph Marcus
1998 - Walter Kohn
2004 - Avram Hershko, Aaron Ciechanover and Irwin Rose
2006 - Roger Kornberg
2009 - Ada Yonath
2011 - Daniel Schechtman
2012 - Robert Lefkowitz
Here is the list of previous Israeli winners of a Nobel Prize :
· Dan Shechtman, Chemistry, 2011
· Ada E. Yonath, Chemistry, 2009,
· Robert John Aumann, Economics, 2005
· Aaron Ciechanover, Chemistry, 2004
· Avram Hershko, Chemistry, 2004
· Daniel Kahneman, Economics, 2002
· Yitzhak Rabin, Peace, 1994
· Shimon Peres, Peace, 1994
· Menachem Begin, Peace, 1978
· Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Literature, 1966