2013 Chemistry Nobel Goes to Computer Modeling of Chemical Reactions: Scientific American

2013 Chemistry Nobel Goes to Computer Modeling of Chemical Reactions: Scientific American:

What is actually happening at the atomic scale when two elements react? This year's chemistry prize goes to three theoretical chemists who devised a way for computers to model and predict how such reactions take place: Martin Karplus of Harvard University and the Universite de Strasbourg in France; Michael Levitt of the Stanford University School of Medicine and Arieh Warshel of the University of Southern California. Or, as the Nobel Committee put it in awarding the prize: "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems."