Nobel Prize winner Dr. Arieh Warshel received honorary doctorate from Lodz University of Technology
Photo: PAP/EPA 2015 / UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNI
Nobel Prize winner in chemistry Arieh Warshel was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of Lodz University of Technology on May 22. The ceremony accompanied the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the university.
Warshel is the winner of the Nobel Prize for the year 2013 in the field of chemistry - together with Michael Levitt and Martin Karplus he was awarded for "the development of large-scale models that describe complex chemical systems".
"He focused on the study of reactions involving a large number of atoms. In the mid-1970s he came up with the theory and mechanism of a research method, the use of which became possible only after many years. His theory is used, among others, to design new drugs" - explained the Lodz University of Technology vice-rector for science Prof. Piotr Paneth.
Ariel Warshel told PAP that this was his first visit to Poland - despite the fact that in his parents of Polish origin emigrated to Israel in the 1920s from the area that is currently in Belarus.
Arieh Warshel was born in 1940 in Sede Nachum kibbutz in Israel. In the 1960s and 1970s he advanced his scientific career in the field of chemical physics at universities in Israel, including the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot. Since 1976, Warshel has been working at the University of Southern California.
He is a world-renowned researcher in the field of computational biochemistry and biophysics. He contributed to the introduction and development of IT computational methods at the interface of chemistry and biology, especially in the discipline now called computational enzymology. According to Prof. Paneth, the concept of calculations developed by Prof. Washel was a quarter of a century ahead of their practical implementation and became a standard in theoretical studies of large chemical and biological systems.
Lodz University of Technology was established in May 1945. Its first rector was Prof. Bohdan Stefanowski. According to the Ministry of Science and Higher Education report, it is currently the fourth most popular among candidates university in Poland. The nine faculties of Lodz University of Technology educate nearly 20 thousand students. University\'s staff are more than 1.3 employees, including 240 professors. The university offers studies in the 39 fields.
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