Computer chemists win Nobel prize

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

The Nobel Prize in chemistry has gone to three scientists who "took the chemical experiment into cyberspace".

Michael Levitt, a British-US citizen of Stanford University; US-Austrian Martin Karplus of Strasbourg University; and US-Israeli Arieh Warshel of the University of Southern California will share the prize.

The trio devised computer simulations to understand chemical processes.

In doing so, they laid the foundations for new kinds of pharmaceuticals.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24458534

[riverbendviewgal]

1. all americans

The irs will tap them for their money award.

[leftynyc]

2. I don't understand something

British-US, US-Israeli, US-Austrian? Where are they from? What country are they citizens of? Are they including the location of the universities they worked at?

[dipsydoodle]

3. Odd wording

I'm guessing that the latter two have dropped their own nationalities and the first one remains British.

[leftynyc]

4. This article from Haaretz

claims both Warshel and Levitt are Israeli citizens:

http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/1.551446

I was really wondering why US was included anywhere - is it because the universities they were working at are American?

[dipsydoodle]

5. Those two had definately emigrated to the US

and may no longer be Israeli citizens. It could be British one just has residency for the purpose of work.

I think that the media in general has picked up on the wording used by the Nobel committee itself and stuck with it

[nsd]

7. All three are naturalized American citizens ...

... though they retain dual citizenship with their former countries.

Also, all three work at American universities. Levitt (Stanford in California), Karplus (Harvard in Massachusetts), Warshel (USC in California),

That's why the American-ness of the new laureates is called out.

That all three retain dual citizenship is rather unusual -- and people will have mixed feelings about that -- but the American connection seems clear.

[Democat]

8. If we listented to the anti-immigration groups

These brilliant minds would not be part of American society.

[leftynyc]

9. Thank you

I had never seen a person's identity put that way before.

[jessie04]

6. WOW....Just wow.

amazing.