As a boy growing up in Newton, Martin Karplus was captivated by his older brother’s chemistry set and wanted one of his own. Their parents, however, didn’t want to increase the amount of odd smells ...

The harp is an ancient instrument, but in its current form, it seems so unwieldy that it’s a wonder that anyone ever learns to play it. It’s one thing to tote a rented trumpet or clarinet home from ...

Proving skeptics wrong, he shared a Nobel Prize in 2013 for using computers to better understand chemical reactions and biological processes. By Dylan Loeb McClain Martin Karplus, a Nobel ...

The harp is an ancient instrument, but in its current form, it seems so unwieldy that it’s a wonder that anyone ever learns to play it. It’s one thing to tote a rented trumpet or clarinet home from ...

Martin Karplus, professor of chemistry emeritus at Harvard University and professeur conventionné at the University of Strasbourg, died Dec. 28 at the age of 94. Born in Vienna in 1930, Karplus would ...

Martin Karplus, a theoretical chemist who shared a Nobel Prize for merging traditional molecular physics and computer modeling to probe complex biochemical reactions and offer insights for advances ...

STOCKHOLM – Three U.S.-based scientists won this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for developing powerful computer models that others can use to understand complex chemical interactions ...

Three molecular chemists won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for devising computer simulations that understand how molecules work. Martin Karplus, an Austrian-American, Michael Levitt, a British-American ...