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
