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