Computer Modelers Secure Chemistry Nobels 34
ananyo writes "One day, computers may be able to simulate exactly how enzymes, ion channels, viruses, DNA and other complex biological molecules react with each other inside a cell. And if such a software package is ever written, it will owe its development to three researchers who today won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Martin Karplus, of Harvard University and the University of Strasbourg, Michael Levitt, of Stanford University, and Arieh Warshel, of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Starting in the 1970s — working with computers far less powerful than today's smartphones — the three theorists made advances in computer modeling that laid the foundations for modern software used to simulate protein folding, design drugs and even artificial enzymes, and understand the workings of complex catalysts. In essence, says Sven Lidin, the chairman of the Nobel committee, they 'took the chemical experiment to cyberspace.'"
Re:vindication (Score:1, Insightful)
You should try Climate Modelling. You can fail there and no one cares. They will even endorse your results regardless of their accuracy!
Re:vindication (Score:4, Insightful)
I did my project in groundwater modeling. Modeling is a black art.
Re:Too late Nobel committee (Score:5, Insightful)
They threw their credibility away when they gave it to Obama? They still had some left after giving it to Kissinger, or Arafat?