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Corpus Christi Schools Science Prize 2014 Chemistry The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013 was awarded jointly to Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems".
A game played every year in University Chemistry Departments all over the world in the weeks before the Nobel Prizes are announced in October is to predict the award of the Chemistry Prize. Will it be yet another incredible breakthrough in biochemistry? Isn’t it Physical Chemistry’s turn for something? Surely, this year, it ought be Professor X for his ground-breaking work on ...? What about the fantastic discoveries made by Professors Y and Z? And so on (and on and on). Occasionally some of us get it right. Usually we don’t. For the purposes of this competition, we would like you to predict the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2014. Although you are welcome to name the scientists you believe should be granted this great honour, we are more interested in hearing about the area of science in which you believe the award should be made. We would like you to imagine that your prediction has turned out to be spot-on and that you have been selected to write the Popular Information that traditionally accompanies the announcement of the Prize. The purpose of these pieces of journalism is to inform the general public about the wonderful science that has just been recognized by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. As your entry for this competition, we ask you to write a Popular Information for your prediction. Examples of recent Popular Informations can be found on the official website of the Nobel Prize (http://www.nobelprize.org/). Last year’s is at: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2013/popular-chemistryprize2013.pdf.
All competition entries should be in your own words, word-processed and submitted in hard copy. Diagrams and any illustrations may be drawn by hand. Entries should be 1,000–2,000 words.
