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NCCR MUST at Scientifica 2021Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt, and Arieh Warshel win the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
"Chemists used to create models of molecules using plastic balls and sticks. Today, the modelling is carried out in computers. In the 1970s, Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel laid the foundation for the powerful programs that are used to understand and predict chemical processes. Computer models mirroring real life have become crucial for most advances made in chemistry today."
(From the press release of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 9.10.2013, link below)
The Basler Zeitung has published an article on the work of Martin Karplus. Markus Meuwly worked with Martin Karplus in Harvard and Freiburg, and was interviewed for this article (linked below - in German). "«Karplus hat den unglaublichen Drang, Dinge aus unserem Leben im Detail zu verstehen», sagt Physiker Markus Meuwly von der Uni Basel, der mit Karplus in Strassburg und Harvard forschte und weiterhin gemeinsame Projekte mit ihm verfolgt. Zum Beispiel Untersuchungen an Hämoglobin, das im Blut Sauerstoff aufnimmt."
This year's Nobel prize is also of significance to MUST-related activities.
First, it is useful to briefly consider the official statement, which says that it had been given for "multiscale modelling" which - when reading the detailed information - really concerns mixed quantum/classical simulations. Such simulations are of central importance for a variety of questions relevant to MUST, including electron and proton transfer in condensed phase systems.
Second, and more broadly, the prize was also awarded for the progress made in atomistic simulations - particularly that of complex chemical systems. Depending on the questions asked, complex systems can either be small solutes in an explicit solvent environment (such as molecular ions in water) or entire proteins. The dynamics of both such systems is being actively investigated in the groups of M. Meuwly and U. Röthlisberger and linked to experiments on ultrafast time scales carried out in several groups within MUST as those of P. Hamm, E. Vauthey or M. Chergui.
The current prize together with that for electronic structure calculations (Pople and Kohn, 1998) and femtochemistry (Zewail, 1999) is a strong basis for the future development on MUST.
(From the press release of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 9.10.2013, link below)
The Basler Zeitung has published an article on the work of Martin Karplus. Markus Meuwly worked with Martin Karplus in Harvard and Freiburg, and was interviewed for this article (linked below - in German). "«Karplus hat den unglaublichen Drang, Dinge aus unserem Leben im Detail zu verstehen», sagt Physiker Markus Meuwly von der Uni Basel, der mit Karplus in Strassburg und Harvard forschte und weiterhin gemeinsame Projekte mit ihm verfolgt. Zum Beispiel Untersuchungen an Hämoglobin, das im Blut Sauerstoff aufnimmt."
This year's Nobel prize is also of significance to MUST-related activities.
First, it is useful to briefly consider the official statement, which says that it had been given for "multiscale modelling" which - when reading the detailed information - really concerns mixed quantum/classical simulations. Such simulations are of central importance for a variety of questions relevant to MUST, including electron and proton transfer in condensed phase systems.
Second, and more broadly, the prize was also awarded for the progress made in atomistic simulations - particularly that of complex chemical systems. Depending on the questions asked, complex systems can either be small solutes in an explicit solvent environment (such as molecular ions in water) or entire proteins. The dynamics of both such systems is being actively investigated in the groups of M. Meuwly and U. Röthlisberger and linked to experiments on ultrafast time scales carried out in several groups within MUST as those of P. Hamm, E. Vauthey or M. Chergui.
The current prize together with that for electronic structure calculations (Pople and Kohn, 1998) and femtochemistry (Zewail, 1999) is a strong basis for the future development on MUST.
