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Chemistry computations earn Nobel prize

The 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Walter Kohn and John A. Pople for their development of computational methods that describe the properties and behavior of molecules.

 

References:

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' announcement about the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is available at http://www.nobel.se/announcement-98/chemistry98.html.

 

Sources:

Christopher J. Cramer
University of Minnesota
Department of Chemistry
207 Pleasant Street, S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0431

George W. Flynn
Columbia University
Department of Chemistry
3000 Broadway
Mailstop Code 3109
New York, NY 10027

Walter Kohn
University of California, Santa Barbara
Department of Physics
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

John A. Pople
Northwestern University
Department of Chemistry
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 16, October 17, 1998, p. 247.
Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

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