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Mar 18, 1914 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel Died on 22 Jan 2001 (aged 86)
Israeli chemist
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About Shneior Lifson
- Shneior Lifson (Hebrew: ?????? ???????; born 18 March 1914 in Tel Aviv – died 22 January 2001 in Rehovot), was an Israeli chemical physicist, scientific director of the Weizmann Institute of Science, a founder of the Open University of Israel, laureate of the 1969 Israel Prize in the life sciences.
- Lifson is best known for his consistent force field method, one of the major theories behind 3-D computer modeling of large molecules. In 2013, two scientists who early in their career had worked under his guidance at the Weizmann Institute – Arieh Warshel, who was his Ph.D.
- student, and Michael Levitt – won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- That research focused on the development and applications of the consistent force field method to molecular dynamics of proteins.
