The Nobel Prize in chemistry, announced today, rewarded three scientists for work leading to the complex computer programs used today to display realistic and detailed structures of complex molecules.
Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel all work at universities in the United States. Karplus also works in France.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the prize to them jointly. Ref. CNN
Two Americans and a German won the Nobel prize in Chemistry this year for their work on optical microscopy that has opened up our understanding of molecules by allowing us to see their functions.
The winners are Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner, the Nobel committee announced Wednesday. Ref. CNN
The 2015 Nobel Prize for chemistry has been jointly awarded to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar for mechanistic studies of DNA repair. Ref. CNN
Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringa win Nobel Prize in chemistry
Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa won "For the design and synthesis of molecular machines," the academy said. Three British-born scientists won the physics prize on Tuesday and a Japanese scientist was honored for medicine on Monday. The peace laureate will be announced Friday and the economics and literature winners will be unveiled next week. Each prize is worth $930,000. Ref. USAToday.