Their work has inspired many of us, including my own work on crystallographic refinement.
It is so wonderful that Michael, Arieh, and Martin have received this most deserving recognition. Congratulations!!! Axel Axel T. Brunger Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor and Chair, Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Physiology Stanford University Web: http://atbweb.stanford.edu Email: brun...@stanford.edu Phone: +1 650-736-1031 Fax: +1 650-745-1463 On Oct 10, 2013, at 2:20 AM, Eleanor Dodson <eleanor.dod...@york.ac.uk> wrote: > This is amazing - I am so glad the Nobel committee has recognised this > ground breaking, rather unglamorous work requiring great intelligence, > very hard work, and a lot of disappointments! > > Congratulations to them all, and to the whole field. > > Eleanor Dodson > > > On 10 October 2013 09:26, Alexandre OURJOUMTSEV <sa...@igbmc.fr> wrote: >> Hello to everybody, >> >> Alex, it was a great idea to initiate the conversation sending >> congratulations to our colleagues ! >> Bob, it was another great idea, when congratulating the Winners, to remind >> us of the framework. >> >> As one of my colleagues pointed out, we shall also give a lot of credits to >> Shneior Lifson who was in the very origins of these works, ideas and >> programs (see the paper by M.Levitt "The birth of computational structural >> biology", Nature Structural & Molecuar Biology, 8, 392-393 (2001); >> http://www.nature.com/nsmb/journal/v8/n5/full/nsb0501_392.html ). >> >> Older crystallographers may remember a fundamental paper by Levitt & Lifson >> (1969). >> >> With best wishes, >> >> Sacha Urzhumtsev >> >> >> -----Message d'origine----- >> De : CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] De la part de Sweet, >> Robert >> Envoyé : mercredi 9 octobre 2013 23:52 >> À : CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK >> Objet : Re: [ccp4bb] השב: [ccp4bb] Why nobody comments about the Nobel >> committee decision? >> >> 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
