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Complex chemistry scientists win Nobel prize Computer chemists win Nobel prize
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Three scientists have won the Nobel prize in chemistry for their work on multiscale models for complex systems. The Nobel Prize in chemistry has gone to three scientists who "took the chemical experiment into cyberspace".
Martin Karplus of Strasbourg and Harvard universities, Michael Levitt of Stanford University and Arieh Warshel at the University of Southern California share the prize. Michael Levitt, a British and US citizen of Stanford University, US-Austrian Martin Karplus of Strasbourg University, and US-Israeli Arieh Warshel of the University of Southern California share the prize.
The trio devised computer simulations to predict chemical processes. The trio devised computer simulations to understand chemical processes.
They "took the chemistry experiment into cyberspace," said the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In doing so they laid the foundations for new kinds of pharmaceuticals.
"The Nobel Laureates in Chemistry 2013 have made it possible to map the mysterious ways of chemistry by using computers," said the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
"Today the computer is just as important a tool for chemists as the test tube.
"Detailed knowledge of chemical processes makes it possible to optimise catalysts, drugs and solar cells."
Warshel told a news conference in Stockholm by telephone that he was "extremely happy" to be woken in the middle of the night in Los Angeles to find out he had won the prize.