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How to Write High-impact Research Papers
Webinar organized by ChemistryVeiws
Thursday, November 07, 2013
10:00 UK | 11:00am CET | 19:00pm JST
Writing high-impact research papers is a lot easier than you think!
This presentation gives you a step-by-step guide to composing an exciting and thought-provoking manuscript which will impress journal editors, referees and readers no matter what type of research you're doing.
This seminar will include:
- How to prepare a cover letter
- How important the title of a paper can be
- How to write a concise abstract
- How to prepare graphics
Your Presenter:
Dr. Richard Threlfall
Managing Editor Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry
and author of Tips for Writing Better Science Papers
The webinar is presented by:
David Spichiger, SCS
30.10.2013
Call for nominations: Le Grand Prix de la Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie
«Le Grand Prix de la Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie» is intended to reward an original work in chemistry, of benefit to mankind, society or nature. The Grand Prix will be awarded for the thirteenth time in 2014 to one or several persons, irrespective of nationality. It carries a monetary award of 35,000 Euros.
Entries
Entries must imperatively be presented through a scientists' society or a national or international scientific organisation without any direct link with the nominee. Entry forms, together with a report detailing the arguments for the nomination, must be received at the Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie no later than 28th February 2014. The nomination documents should be sent by e-mail to the SCS that hands in the formal nomination. Please send your nomination dossiers no later than 15th February 2014 to .
Jury
The international jury composed of a chairman, 9 members recognized for their work in the various fields of chemistry, and the laureates of the two previous GRANDS PRIX. Three members of the jury must be of a nationality other than French. The jury is assisted by a scientific coordinator. The chairman of the jury is the incumbent president of the Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie, the other members being appointed by the Board of the Foundation.
Award ceremony
The award ceremony for the 2014 Grand Prix will take place on November 12th, 2014 at the Maison de la Chimie in Paris. The laureate will be invited to deliver a lecture on his/her work on this occasion.
Further information on the website.
David Spichiger, SCS
15.10.2013
EuCheMS Brussels News Update, Oct 2013
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2013 to
Martin Karplus, Université de Strasbourg, France and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Michael Levitt, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Arieh Warshel, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
“for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems”
The computer — your Virgil in the world of atoms
Chemists used to create models of molecules using plastic balls and sticks. Today, the modelling is carried out in computers. In the 1970s, Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel laid the foundation for the powerful programs that are used to understand and predict chemical processes. Computer models mirroring real life have become crucial for most advances made in chemistry today.
Chemical reactions occur at lightning speed. In a fraction of a millisecond, electrons jump from one atomic nucleus to the other. Classical chemistry has a hard time keeping up; it is virtually impossible to experimentally map every little step in a chemical process. Aided by the methods now awarded with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, scientists let computers unveil chemical processes, such as a catalyst’s purification of exhaust fumes or the photosynthesis in green leaves.
The work of Karplus, Levitt and Warshel is ground- breaking in that they managed to make Newton’s classical physics work side-by-side with the fundamentally different quantum physics. Previously, chemists had to choose to use either or. The strength of classical physics was that calculations were simple and could be used to model really large molecules. Its weakness, it offered no way to simulate chemical reactions. For that purpose, chemists instead had to use quantum physics. But such calcula- tions required enormous computing power and could therefore only be carried out for small molecules.
This year’s Nobel Laureates in chemistry took the best from both worlds and devised methods that use both classical and quantum physics. For instance, in simu- lations of how a drug couples to its target protein in the body, the computer performs quantum theoretical calculations on those atoms in the target protein that interact with the drug. The rest of the large protein is simulated using less demanding classical physics.
Today the computer is just as important a tool for chemists as the test tube. Simulations are so realistic that they predict the outcome of traditional experiments.
Text source: www.nobelprize.org
Links:
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/
David Spichiger, SCS
09.10.2013
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