Prof. Martin Karpelos from Harvard University, Michael Levitt from Stanford and Prof. Arie Warschel from the University of Southern California won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Prof. Martin Karpelos from Harvard University, Michael Levitt from Stanford and Prof. Arie Warschel from the University of Southern California won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for combining computer models of chemistry and quantum physics.
Prof. Warshel completed his bachelor's degree at the Technion in 1966, a year later he completed his master's degree at the Weizmann Institute and in 1969 he completed his doctorate at the institute. Prof. Levitt was also for many years a faculty member at the Weizmann Institute, and today he serves as a visiting researcher and stays for long periods at the Weizmann Institute. Prof. Karpelos was also on sabbatical at the institute during the time when they were developing the model.
Chemists used to use sticks and balls to demonstrate chemical operations. Nowadays everything is done on a computer. In the XNUMXs, Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt, and Arie Warschel laid the groundwork for powerful parrots used to understand and repeat chemical processes.
Computer models that reflect real life have become critical to most developments in chemistry today. Chemical reactions happen at lightning speed. Within milliseconds electrons jump from one atomic nucleus to another. It is almost impossible to predict every little step in the chemical process. With the help of the models thanks to which the three winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry were awarded, the scientists allowed the computers to reveal chemical processes such as the operations in the catalytic converters, photosynthesis and more.
The work of Karpelos, Levitt and Worschel is groundbreaking in that they allowed Newton's classical physics to work side by side with the completely different quantum physics. Therefore, the chemists had to choose which physics to use. The strength of classical physics lies in the simplicity of the calculations and the possibility of using it to model very large molecules. Its weakness is that it does not offer ways to simulate chemical reactions. for these purposes. For these purposes, chemists had to use quantum physics, but this required enormous computing power and could only be performed on small molecules.
GLC website He said a few minutes ago that in an interview with Yael discussing the program "We Make Lunch", the 72-year-old Varshel, who grew up in Kibbutz Sde Nahum and studied at the Technion and the Weizmann Institute, but has lived in the United States for the past 40 years because he definitely defines himself as Israeli as well. "I am partly Israeli," said Warshel, "I visit the country, I feel Israeli and my childhood speaks Hebrew."
Varshel, told Gali IDF "The news is that there are proteins that could not understand how they work", explained Varshel, "What we did was to build computer models through which you can understand what the protein does." According to him, "If you understand what that protein does, you can cure many diseases. Diseases come from certain proteins not working as they should."
Prof. Amnon Horowitz from the Weizmann Institute in an interview with the Hidan website The work of Nobel Prize winners in chemistry is closely related to the Weizmann Institute
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Yishai:
Still there is Some data you should know about the influence of the ultra-orthodox on the budget.
To the financial genius Avi Balivsky
I was waiting to see how many nanoseconds it would take for something to write a comment like that.
It is interesting that the degeneration among the Arab population that uses over fifty percent of the allowances (about three billion shekels per year) does not bother you. Or sixty thousand border breakers from Sudan whose relief will probably fall on the law-abiding citizens don't bother you. Or the four and a half billion shekels that go every year on the Oslo agreements. Or eight hundred million dollars cumulative debt of the Palestinian Authority to an electricity company. Or fifty million cubic meters of water to Jordan for free in exchange for peace.
I can testify as a master's degree student in chemistry in Scandinavia that here too they manipulate with tight budgets. The brain drain problem belongs to and plagues the entire Western world (where there are no Yeshivas). The way things are - those who want to succeed at this level run away to the USA, Switzerland, France or take out one Scandinavian university (Upsala in Sweden) where there is both money and advanced laboratories as well as advanced equipment.
The Norwegian government spends about thirteen billion shekels a year on research. Funding for quantum chemistry research is less than funding for research on gender. Unfortunately, most of the funds go to sociologist decoration committee research.
I must point out that the situation is different in organic chemistry - because the economy relies on gas and gasoline, but this is the exception that does not prove the rule.
You seem to be going out of your way to blame a certain population anyway.
I don't like the elitist tone of I'm better than them out of place. And science is not an illusion! I'll just remind you in a hint who worshiped science seventy years ago.
There is a place to study Jewish philosophy, just as there is a place to study Greek philosophy, literature and history.
I saw the series of articles on Wynet by humanities academics who have completed their doctorates and want the state to finance their work for over two thousand five hundred NIS a month. (and it is impossible to finance them without first handcuffing the citizen's pockets)
What is the difference between grass science researchers and ultra-Orthodox?
I'm sure you'll agree that conformism and mental fixation are the root of ignorance - mind you.
To remind you, the Nobel Prize winner did not leave today but about forty years ago... then your ideological ancestors ruled without producing in every field of life. So you should blame them.
Obviously, if we transfer the 750 million of the Yeshiva to the universities - all the problems will be solved and we will have Nobel laureates in abundance...
It's good for us to have someone to blame.
But if the Yeshiva are to blame for the university's problems, who is to blame for the lack of budget in health, welfare, culture and sports?
It's a problem because you can't hang all the problems on yeshiva...
I have an idea, we will also blame the settlements for the rest of the troubles. Lucky, now I'm calm.
To Assaf, if you are working at all, this is a disease that needs to be eliminated. Why don't we just employ robots and so all the capital stays with the capitalists? In science it doesn't work like that, you need patience that a capitalist does not have, to solve problems in basic science. That's why the universities are governmental, but it was more important for governments to invest in yeshiva than in higher education and basic science.
Constancy is a disease that needs to be eradicated. If someone is good, they should be hired and given budgets, but why tenure?
Shame on the Weizmann Institute - how come they didn't give him tenure?!
Please don't whitewash - he left the country because he didn't get tenure at his place of work in the country (Weizmann Institute).
At least they should have invited him back with tenure after they started to understand that we shouldn't lose such a scientist!