It deserves comment!! I've been too busy talking with my friends about it to think of CCP4.
This morning on NPR I heard Karplus's name and started to whoop and holler, and by the time they got to Arieh I realized they had a Hat Trick!! It's a spectacular thing that this field should get recognition! An interesting feature to me is that, at least when I was following the field, these three use physics to do their work, modeling with carefully estimated spring constants, etc., and eventually QM results. Those who use phenomenology -- hydrophobic volumes, who likes to lie next to whom, etc. -- are extremely effective (you know who they are), and they deserve credit. But they (we, some years ago) stand on the shoulders of the achievements of these three. It's good to remember the late, great, Tony Jack, cut down before reaching his prime. Bob ________________________________________ From: CCP4 bulletin board [CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] on behalf of Nat Echols [nathaniel.ech...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 5:31 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] השב: [ccp4bb] Why nobody comments about the Nobel committee decision? Levitt also contributed to DEN refinement (Schroder et al. 2007, 2010). -Nat On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Boaz Shaanan <bshaa...@bgu.ac.il<mailto:bshaa...@bgu.ac.il>> wrote: Good point. Now since you mentioned contributions of the recent Nobel laureates to crystallography Mike Levitt also had a significant contribution through the by now forgotten Jack-Levitt refinement which to the best of my knowledge was the first time that x-ray term was added to the energy minimization algorithm. I think I'm right about this. This was later adapted by Axel Brunger in Xplor and other progrmas followed. Cheers, Boaz -------- הודעה מקורית -------- מאת Alexander Aleshin <aales...@sanfordburnham.org<mailto:aales...@sanfordburnham.org>> תאריך: 10/10/2013 0:07 (GMT+02:00) אל CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK<mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> נושא [ccp4bb] Why nobody comments about the Nobel committee decision? Sorry for a provocative question, but I am surprised why nobody comments/congratulations laureates with regard to recently awarded Nobel prizes? However, one of laureates in chemistry contributed to a popular method in computational crystallography. CHARMM -> XPLOR -> CNS -> PHENIX->… Alex Aleshin
