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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013, Michael Levitt comes to IUPAB 2021 Scientists Michael Levitt, Martin Karplus, and Arieh Warshel were awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for designing computer simulations to understand and predict complex chemical processes, such as photosynthesis and combustion. Levitt, from Stanford University, will be one of the speakers at the 20th IUPAB Congress, 45th Annual SBBf Meeting, and 49th Annual SBBq Meeting, to be held together, in October 4th to 8th, 2021 |
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"The world around us is made up of atoms that are joined together to form molecules. During chemical reactions atoms change places and new molecules are formed. To accurately predict the course of the reactions at the sites where the reaction occurs advanced calculations based on quantum mechanics are required. For other parts of the molecules, it is possible to use the less complicated calculations of classical mechanics. In the 1970s, Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt, and Arieh Warshel successfully developed methods that combined quantum and classical mechanics to calculate the courses of chemical reactions using computers”, inform the official website of the Nobel Prize. |
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