Michael Levitt, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was the victim of a theft in the Algarve. The scientist was recently left without his laptop, which he calls valuable, a mobile phone, backpacks and a diary, which were in his car, in Portimão, on Rua do Alto do Pacheco, but has only now asked for the return of his assets. stolen. “I have been silent because I write articles about Covid,” he said in a post on the social network X (formerly Twitter). “I am now asking for help to find my laptops and diary stolen from two backpacks in a car near Portimao, Portugal,” the biophysicist added. British Michael Levitt, 76, born in South Africa, received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2013, along with Austrian Martin Karplus and Israeli Arie Warschel, for developing computer models to understand and predict chemical processes. . Michael Levitt is a professor at Stanford University in the US, where he is researching the Covid-19 pandemic. Levitt has been one of the critics of the drastic lockdown measures taken in some countries.