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April 1, 2020The Disappearing Young Scientists
April 3, 2015Disappearing Young Scientists http://on.wsj.com/1v4GvUk Michael Levitt on implications of #budget cuts for starting researchers HT @oselsayed
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What’s behind the shortage? Mr. Daniels suggests several reasons, including longer postdoctoral training; a system of applications, demonstrable data and peer review, and a shift in research costs to universities—which typically narrows awards to seasoned, tenured researchers. But perhaps the simplest explanation came from Nobel laureate Michael Levitt of Stanford, who said last year that senior scientists were once able to renew their existing grants and let young scientists compete for unawarded grant money. Now after budget cuts, older scientists are competing “against the kids,” and usually winning.
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Warshel_JMB76_Enzymic_reactions.pdf
July 19, 2014Theoretical Studies of Enzymic Reactions :
Dielectric, Electrostatic and Steric Stabilization of
Reaction of Lysozyme
the Carbonium Ion in the
A. WARSHEL AND M. LEVITT
http://csb.stanford.edu/levitt/Warshel_JMB76_Enzymic_reactions.pdf
Conformational Optimization with Natural Degrees of Freedom: A Novel Stochastic Chain Closure Algorithm
July 19, 2014Comprehensive Evaluation of Protein Structure Alignment Methods: Scoring by Geometric Measures
July 19, 2014Maps of protein structure space reveal a fundamental relationship between protein structure and function
July 19, 2014Maps of protein structure space reveal a fundamental relationship between protein structure and function
http://www.pnas.org/content/108/30/12301.abstract
Some random tidbits about Michael Levitt’s Nobel Prize
May 13, 2014The 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. “}}
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http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/professor-michael-levitt-laureate-of-the-nobel-prize-in-news-photo/454797555 pics from ceremony
