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Modesto Orozco on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry: "It has had an enormous impact in pharmaceutical chemistry"

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The ICREA Academia professor and researcher at IRB Barcelona Modesto Orozco, leader of the Molecular Modelling and Bioinformatics, gives his opinion about the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Martin Karplus, Arieh Warshel and Michael Levitt. Orozco has been consulted by journalists from “El País”, "El Mundo" and "Ara", newspapers.

Read his opinions here:

ARA (13/10/2013) PDF in Catalan
El Mundo (10/10/2013) PDF in Spanish
El País (10/10/2013) PDF in Spanish

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