that "in this instance, I believe he crossed a boundary from data to public policy where the impact of his word as a Nobel laureate has undue influence." Awards and honors Levitt was elected an EMBO Member in 1983, a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2001, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2002, and received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Martin Karplus and Arieh Warshel, "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems". He received the DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences in 2014. He was elected an ISCB Fellow by the International Society for Computational Biology in 2015. Personal life Levitt holds South African, American, British and Israeli citizenship. His wife Rina died on 23 January 2017. He is the sixth Israeli to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in under a decade. References External links 1947 births Nobel laureates in Chemistry Israeli Nobel laureates American Nobel laureates British Nobel laureates Israeli bioinformaticians American biophysicists Structural biologists Members of the European Molecular Biology Organization Fellows of the Royal Society 20th-century British biologists 21st-century British biologists British Jews Israeli Jews Naturalized citizens of Israel Jewish American scientists Alumni of Pretoria Boys High School Alumni of King's College London Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge Stanford University School of Medicine faculty Living people Academic staff of Weizmann Institute of Science Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Fellows of the International Society for Computational Biology Computational chemists South African emigrants to the United Kingdom Annual Reviews (publisher) editors South African people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent South African people of Czech descent South African Jews