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From Kibbutz Fishponds To The Nobel Prize: Taking Molecular Functions Into Cyberspace (Hardcover)
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From Kibbutz Fishponds To The Nobel Prize: Taking Molecular Functions Into Cyberspace (Hardcover)
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What Arieh Warshel and fellow 2013 Nobel laureates Michael Levitt
and Martin Karplus achieved - beginning in the late 1960s and early
1970s when computers were still very primitive - was the creation
of methods and programs that describe the action of biological
molecules by 'multiscale models'. In this book, Warshel describes
this fascinating, half-century journey to the apex of science.From
Kibbutz Fishponds to The Nobel Prize is as much an autobiography as
an advocacy for the emerging field of computational science. We
follow Warshel through pivotal moments of his life, from his
formative years in war-torn Israel in an idealistic kibbutz that
did not encourage academic education; to his time in the army and
his move to the Technion where he started in his obsession of
understanding the catalytic power of enzymes; to his eventual
scientific career which took him to the Weizmann Institute, Harvard
University, Medical Research Council, and finally University of
Southern California. We read about his unique contributions to the
elucidation of the molecular basis of biological functions, which
are combined with instructive stories about his persistence in
advancing ideas that contradict the current dogma, and the nature
of his scientific struggle for recognition, both personal and for
the field to which he devoted his life. This is, in so many ways,
more than just a memoir: it is a profoundly inspirational tale of
one man's odyssey from a kibbutz that did not allow him to go to a
university to the pinnacle of the scientific world, highlighting
that the correct mixture of persistence, talent and luck can lead
to a Nobel Prize.
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