Modellers react to chemistry award

摘要

Computer modelling is one of the many scientific fields that Alfred Nobel understandably, failed to anticipate in his 1895 will. And so, as Michael Levitt points out, "there's no Nobel prize for computer science". But computations increasing importance in chemistry and biology was recognized last week, when Levitt, of Stanford University in California, was one of three scientists to receive the chemistry Nobel for their work on ways to simulate the activity of large molecules - from cellular enzymes to light-absorbing dyes.