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English 6 October 2010 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2010 to Richard F. Heck University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA, Ei-ichi Negishi Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA and Akira Suzuki Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan “for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis” Great art in a test tube Organic chemistry…

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I was born in Akron, Ohio on June 6, 1943, one year to the day before D-Day, the allied invasion at Normandy. The youngest of four children, I was brought up in a wonderfully stable, loving family of strong Midwestern values. When I was three my family moved to Kansas City, Missouri where we lived…

I was born on November 20, 1940 in Kibbutz Sde Nahum in the Beit She’an Valley, in what was back then the pre-independent Israel. I grew up in a relatively happy environment at the so-called “kids house,” where the kids from the same class slept together. The idea was for kids to have quality time…

Links to other sites O Articles Levitt, M. (2001) The birth of computational structural biology, Nature structural biology 8:392–393.Karplus, M. (2006) Spinach on the Ceiling: A Theoretical Chemist’s Return to Biology,Annu. Rev. Biophys. Biomol. Struct. 35: 1–47.Johnson, P. (2012) Warshel Fêted by Royal Society of Chemistry, http://128.125.126.117/news/stories/1298/warshel-fted-by-royal-society-of-chemistry/

Swedish 9 oktober 2013 har beslutat utdela Nobelpriset i kemi år 2013 till Martin Karplus,Université de Strasbourg, Frankrike och Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA Michael LevittStanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA och Arieh WarshelUniversity of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA ”för utvecklandet av flerskalemodeller för komplexa kemiska system” Datorn – visar vägen…

English 9 October 2013 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2013 to Martin KarplusUniversité de Strasbourg, France and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA Michael LevittStanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA and Arieh WarshelUniversity of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA “for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical…

Dorothy Crowfoot was born in Cairo on May 12th, 1910 where her father, John Winter Crowfoot, was working in the Egyptian Education Service. He moved soon afterwards to the Sudan, where he later became both Director of Education and of Antiquities; Dorothy visited the Sudan as a girl in 1923, and acquired a strong affection…