Karplus, Levitt, Warshel shares 2013 Nobel Prize for Chemistry

            

      2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry winners Arieh Warshel, Michael Levitt and  Martin Karplus.

   The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Wednesday announced that scientists Michael Levitt, Arieh Warshel and Martin Karplus have won this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry.They were cites "for the development of the multiscale models for complex chemical systems." 

    Israeli professor Arieh Warshel, 72,born on 20 Nov,1940 is a distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles,where he has been since the 1970s.Michael levitt,66 a South Africa born professor taught at the Weizmann institute in Rehovot for most of the 1980s,was born on 9 May 1947 in Pretoria, South Africa and the fellow Vienna-born martin Karplus, 83 born in 15 March 1930 field the Nazi occupation of Austria as a child in 1938.

  The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Wednesday said, upon awarding the prize of 8 million crowns ($1.25 million), that their research in the 1970s has helped scientists develop programs that unveil chemical processes such as the purification of exhaust fumes or the photosynthesis in green leaves.