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Spinach on the ceilingthe multifaceted life of a theoretical chemist /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Spinach on the ceilingMartin Karplus.
Reminder of title:	the multifaceted life of a theoretical chemist /
Author:	Karplus, Martin,
Published:	London :World Scientific,c2020.
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	ChemistsInterviews.
Online resource:	https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/q0238#t=toc
ISBN:	9781786348036$q(electronic bk.)

Spinach on the ceilingthe multifaceted life of a theoretical chemist /
Karplus, Martin,1930-

Spinach on the ceilingthe multifaceted life of a theoretical chemist /[electronic resource] :Martin Karplus. - 1st ed. - London :World Scientific,c2020. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

My ancestors -- Childhood years in Europe -- Final days in Europe -- A new life in America -- Beginning of scientific interests -- College years -- Graduate school -- Postdoctoral sojourn in Oxford and Europe -- University of Illinois : NMR and coupling constants -- Move to Columbia and focus on reaction kinetics -- The FBI and me -- Return to Harvard University and biology -- Move to Paris -- Protein folding, hemoglobin and CHARM program -- The first molecular dynamics simulation of a biomolecule -- Early applications of molecular dynamics -- My career as a photographer -- How we came to move to Strasbourg -- My life as a chef -- Announcement of the Nobel Prize -- After the announcement -- The Nobel Prize event -- Science after the Nobel Prize -- Life after the Nobel Prize.

"The autobiography of Martin Karplus, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2013, describes the journey from his childhood in Vienna, his escape to Switzerland in 1938 shortly after Hitler's entrance into Austria, his education in New England and California, and scientific career which took him to England, Illinois, Columbia, Strasbourg, and Harvard. The author's optimistic outlook and faith in himself made it possible for him to overcome difficulties in his research and to develop methods in several different fields of science that asked questions to teach him and others something not known before. Paralleling his efforts in science, Martin Karplus enjoyed a life-long interest in cooking, working at some of the best restaurants in France and Spain, and in photography, holding numerous exhibitions of his work around the world"--

ISBN: 9781786348036$q(electronic bk.)Subjects--Personal Names:

245843
Karplus, Martin,
1930-Subjects--Topical Terms:

437344
Chemists
--Interviews.

LC Class. No.: QD22.K315 / K37 2020

Dewey Class. No.: 540.92

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