Nobel prize awarded to COMPUTATIONAL Chemistry

2013-10-09 Thread Mike Schwab
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction/2013/10/09/computational-chemistry-wins-2013-nobel-prize-in-chemistry/ -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? --

Re: Nobel prize awarded to COMPUTATIONAL Chemistry

2013-10-09 Thread John Gilmore
Monte Carlo/simulation methods, once used chiefly by particle physicists, have spread into chemistry in recent decades; and it is now sometimes---but, of course, only sometimes---easier to elucidate a reaction using digital simulation than in the laboratory. A Nobel for one of these simulations