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9th Oct 2013; 7:15PM
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to Martin Karplus (Harvard University), Michael Levitt (Stanford school of Medicine) and Arieh Warshel (University of Southern California) for work leading to the complex computer programs used today to display detailed structures of complex molecules.
In the 1970s, Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel laid the foundation for the powerful programs that are used to understand and predict chemical processes.
Earlier in laboratories, chemical models were demonstrated with plastic balls and other physical objects which made it impossible to demonstrate any complex model and thus the Computer model was evolved!!!
"Molecules are lazy creatures. Most of the time they don't do anything," said Gunnar Karlstrom from the Royal Academy. "They just swing around and don't do anything, and then suddenly, when they react, everything goes quick, like that."
The three scientists combined the principles of traditional Newtonian physics, which has the advantage of being simple, with quantum physics, which is much more complex but also much more accurate, because it deals with what goes on at a subatomic level.
That has resulted in programs that are simple to use but also highly accurate.
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