Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt, Arieh Warshel get chemistry Nobel

October 09, 2013 15:41

The Nobel Prize for Chemistry this year has been awarded jointly to Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel "for the development of multi-scale models for complex chemical systems".

According to a press release by the Nobel Committee, the trio "laid the foundation for the powerful programs that are used to understand and predict chemical processes. Computer models mirroring real life have become crucial for most advances made in chemistry today. They managed to make Newton's classical physics work side-by-side with the fundamentally different quantum physics".

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