Nobel Prize Chemistry 2013 Won Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt And
Arieh Warshel
Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh
Warshel have won this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry for laying the foundation
for computer models used to understand and predict chemical processes.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said their research
in the 1970s has helped scientists develop programs that unveil chemical
processes such as the purification of exhaust fumes or the photosynthesis in
green leaves.
'The work of Karplus, Levitt and Warshel is ground-breaking in that they
managed to make Newton's classical physics work side-by-side with the
fundamentally different quantum physics,' the academy said. 'Previously,
chemists had to choose to use either/or.'Karplus, a U.S. and Austrian citizen is affiliated with
the University of Strasbourg, France, and Harvard University. Levitt is a
British and Israeli citizen and a professor at the Stanford University School
of Medicine. Warshel is a U.S. and Israeli citizen affiliated with the
University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
