John Wiley & Sons, Inc., is pleased to learn that the Royal Swedish
Academy has awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2013 to Martin
Karplus, Michael Levitt, and Arieh Warshel.
Professor Martin Karplus, ofUniversité de Strasbourg, France, and
Harvard University, U.S.A., Professor Michael Levitt, of Stanford
University School of Medicine, U.S.A., and Professor Arieh Warshel, of
University of Southern California, U.S.A., were awarded the Nobel Prize
for laying the foundations for the way computer programs are used to
understand and predict chemical processes.
Professor Karplus currently serves on the editorial advisory boards for
the Wiley published titles, the Journal
of Molecular Recognition and the Journal
of Computational Chemistry. Professor Karplus has
published research with Wiley throughout his career and has contributed
book chapters to titles including the Encyclopedia
of Computational Chemistry.
Professor Levitt has published research in the Journal
of Computational Chemistry and Protein
Science; while Professor Warshel has contributed a chapter on
computer simulations of biological molecules to the Encyclopedia
of Molecular Biology, and has presented research in
journals including Proteins:
Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics.
The laureates’ research laid the theoretical foundation for the further
study of computer modeling, including the Angewandte
Chemie article noted in the Nobel
foundation’s background paper.
To celebrate the achievements of the Nobel winners, Wiley will be making
a selection of content from this year’s winners of Nobel Prizes free to
access until the end of the year. Please visit the Nobel
Prize page on Wiley Online Library for more information and to
access content, which will be updated throughout the award period.
