The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2013 to Martin KarplusUniversité de Strasbourg, France andHarvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA Michael LevittStanford University School of Medicine,Stanford, CA, USA Arieh WarshelUniversity of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA “for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems”The computer — your Virgil in the world of atoms Chemists used to create models of molecules using plastic balls and sticks. Today, the modelling is carried out in computers.
