Disturbed chemistry Nobel Prize winners - Spiegel Online

No group picture delirious with joy, instead three individual portraits: It is no coincidence that the three Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the photographers have not been shown together. Because Arieh Warshel is divided by its own account with one of his co-winners. He had spoken briefly with his “friend” Michael Levitt, but not with Martin Karplus, the Israeli-American citizen Warshel told the AFP news agency on Wednesday. With “the other”, he does not care treatment.

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but they will gather together the award again. “We are now talking about, and maybe I’ll bring him to issue me a meal,” Warshel said. He had worked with both the American and British citizens with Levitt and Karplus, has the Austrian and U.S. nationality.

three molecular chemist received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2013, according to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for their pioneering work on the development of universal computer models for the prediction of chemical processes. These models are not only in research but also in the industry.

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Arieh Warshel told reporters in Los Angeles, he was informed of the award by two clock in the morning by phone. Since he was on the phone with Israeli President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This’ve asked him for a brief explanation, but warned that he would probably not understand. “So I gave him a one-minute speech. He understood him and said from now on he’ll force his ministers, whatever they want to say in just a minute,” said Warshel, much to the amusement of the journalists.

the newly crowned Nobel laureate Karplus means the prestigious great satisfaction. His colleagues did not believe in the seventies to his ideas, Karplus said the Germany radio. “It just took until the world has really realized that we play with the atoms and can make useful things from it.” Today, thousands of universities and companies would work with the computer he co methods. “Now they are a center of chemistry.”

Warshel and Karplus by many Nobel Prize-wishers was asked what his computer models calculated for exactly. Each time he had to describe “an easy way” his work, Karplus said: “If you like how a particular machine works, take it apart we do this with molecules..”

Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1999

2013

Martin Karplus , Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel for the development of multiscale models of complex chemical systems

2012

Robert Lefkowitz (USA) and Brian Kobilka (USA) for their studies of G-protein-coupled receptors

2011

Daniel Shechtman (Israel) for his pioneering insights Research in the area of ??the crystal

2010

Richard Heck (USA), Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki (both Japan) for the connection of carbon atoms to complex molecules

2009

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (Great Britain), Thomas A. Steitz (USA) and Ada E. Yonath (Israel) for the studies of the structure and function of the ribosome

2008

Osamu Shimomura (Japan), Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien (both USA) for the discovery and development of green fluorescent protein

2007

Gerhard Ertl (Germany) for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces. Gerhard Ertl in SPIEGEL interview on its way to success

2006

Roger D. Kornberg (USA) for his work on the molecular basis of gene transcription in eukaryotic cells

2005

Yves Chauvin (France), Robert Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock (both USA) for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis

2004

Aaron Ciechanover , Avram Hershko (both Israel) and Irwin Rose (USA) for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation

2003

Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon (both USA) for its structural and mechanical studies of ion channels in cell membranes

2002

John B. Fenn (USA) and Koichi Tanaka (Japan) for their development of soft Desorptions-/Ionisations-Methoden for mass spectrometric analyzes of biological macromolecules and Kurt Wüthrich (Switzerland) for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution

2001

William S. Knowles (USA) and Ryoji Noyori (Japan) for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions and Barry Sharpless (USA) for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions

2000

Alan J. Heeger (USA), Alan MacDiarmid (USA / New Zealand) and Hideki Shirakawa (Japan) for the discovery and development of conductive polymers

1999

Ahmed Zewail (Egypt / USA) for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy

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