Nobel Prize

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…

Family Background I was born in Pretoria, the executive capital of South Africa, on 9 May 1947. My mother, Gertrude, was also born in South Africa, in Johannesburg to parents who had emigrated from Czechoslovakia. My father was born in Plungė, Lithuania, and came to South Africa when he was 10 years old. My childhood…

I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1940, and my family lived in an apartment above a paint store in the downtown area until 1949. Although my father had obtained a law degree from Marquette University in Milwaukee, he became the administrator in charge of personnel at the Milwaukee County Hospital. My mother grew up…

From Chidambaram to Cambridge: A Life in Science ChildhoodI was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance. When I was born, my father, C.V. Ramakrishnan, was away on a postdoctoral fellowship in Madison, Wisconsin, with the famous enzymologist David…

I was born on February 19, 1956 in the middle of a snowstorm. It remains one of those humorous family stories that my mother likes to tell. My father the planner had rehearsed the way to the hospital but apparently things looked a lot different at night in a blizzard. Eventually they made it and…

From 6th through 12th grades I attended a Quaker school on the Philadelphia city line. Twice a week the entire school attended Quaker Meeting, silent gatherings except when someone received a personal call to speak. I never got a call, but nonetheless my head was full: I thought about fishing and boats. Or else I…

I was born in Aarberg, Switzerland, on October 4, 1938, and during my childhood I lived in the small town of Lyss in the Berner Seeland. At the time this was a rural area of farmland, forests and rivers. The roots of the Wüthrich family are in an even more rural, mountainous area, the farming…