Some random tidbits about Michael Levitt’s Nobel Prize

The science behind Michael Levitt’s Nobel Prize
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/october/michael-levitt-science-100913.html Interesting spin on the Nobel: no mention of the word “chemist”, just “biologist”. No mention of QMM, but lots of discussion of protein structure prediction and folding.

Stanford Nobel winner Levitt stunned by good news – San Jose Mercury News
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_24276968/stanford-nobel-winner-levitt-stunned-by-good-news QT:{{”
His hero is French-American sculptor Louise Bourgeois, who at 70 indignantly told someone at her Museum of Modern Art exhibit, “You think this is a retrospective? I’m just beginning.” Then she rented a Brooklyn warehouse and went on to create her most famous work. “}}

http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/american-british-israeli-biophysicist-michael-levitt-news-photo/454782861
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/professor-michael-levitt-laureate-of-the-nobel-prize-in-news-photo/454797555 pics from ceremony

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