Archive – Science

More

Top science prize goes to molecular dynamics

This content was published on Sep 1, 2011 Michele Parrinello, who holds posts at both the University of Italian-speaking Switzerland and at the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, will be presented with the Marcel Benoist prize on November 28. Molecular dynamics is the computer simulation of the physical movements of atoms and molecules. Parrinello’s work has applications in a many areas of physics,…