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Martin Karplus (94) was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2013 together with Michael Levitt and Arieh Würstel for groundbreaking work on the development of universal computer models for predicting chemical processes.

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The Austrian-born Nobel Prize winner in chemistry Martin Karplus, who was expelled to the USA by the Nazis, has died. He died "peacefully at his home in Cambridge" (US state of Massachusetts) on December 28 at the age of 94.

Karplus was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2013 together with Michael Levitt and Arieh Würstel for groundbreaking work on the development of universal computer models for predicting chemical processes.

The scion of a Jewish medical family, who had to flee his homeland as a child in 1938, never gave up his reserved attitude towards Austria.

Karplus was not only successful as a scientist. His passions also included photography and cooking.

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"Good for reconciliation"
The professor, who worked at Harvard University, always felt that the country and its representatives' attempts at rapprochement following the award of the Nobel Prize were "a little late". Nevertheless, he felt that Austria's invitations and tributes to the US chemist were "good for reconciliation".

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Cooking as a great passion
Karplus was not only successful as a scientist. His passions also included photography and cooking. His photos were shown in exhibitions around the world and he cooked in three-star Michelin restaurants in France and Spain.