Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt, Arieh Warshel win Nobel chemistry prize 2013

Zee Media Bureau

Stockholm: Scientists Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt, Arieh Warshel won the 2013 Nobel chemistry prize on Wednesday for work on programs that are used to understand and predict chemical processes.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Wednesday cited the three researchers "for the development of the multiscale models for complex chemical systems."

Earlier this week, James Rothman and Randy Schekman, and Germany`s Thomas Sudhof won the 2013 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology for research into how the cell organises its transport system.
Britain`s Peter Higgs and Belgium`s Francois Englert won the 2013 Nobel prize for physics for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson

(With Agency inputs)