{"349221":{"#nid":"349221","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Nobel Laureate Levitt Highlights Research, Influences in Georgia Tech Lecture","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs Nobel Laureate Michael Levitt began a \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/events\/nobel-laureate-lecture-michael-levitt\u0022\u003Electure at Georgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E this week, he explained that he would not be speaking about his groundbreaking work into multi-scale modeling of macromolecules had it not been for the scientific giants who came before him.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELevitt\u2019s influences serve as a roll call of \u201cheroes\u201d in the field of computational structural biology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere\u2019s Linus Pauling, who predicted the alpha-helix in 1951 and whom Levitt describes as the \u201cgreatest chemist to ever live.\u201d Two years later, there\u2019s Francis Crick, who predicted the structure of DNA. In 1959, John Kendrew provided the first three-dimensional structure of a protein.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThen there\u2019s Max Perutz, who Levitt labels as \u201cthe real hero of structural biology.\u201d An innovator in his own right, Perutz was the doctoral supervisor for both Crick and Kendrew. And finally, there\u2019s David Phillips, an early supporter of computational biology, who unveiled leading research into lysozymes in 1965.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 1967, Kendrew himself would send Levitt to Israel to start a post-doctoral fellowship with Shneior Lifson at the Weismann Institute and a career in computational structural biology was born.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn Monday, Nov. 24, at the Georgia Tech Student Center Ballroom, Levitt detailed in a lecture titled \u0022Birth and Future of Multi-Scale Modeling of Macromolecules,\u0022 a career and research that would eventually lead to a professorship at Stanford University and a Nobel Prize.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELevitt is the fourth Nobel Laureate to visit Tech recently at the invitation of the College of Computing, following Aaron Ciechanover and Daniel Shechtman, both prize winners in chemistry, and Kenneth Arrow, a winner for economics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo watch Levitt\u2019s lecture, please visit: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/content\/nobel-laureate-lecture-michael-levitt\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/content\/nobel-laureate-lecture-michael-levitt\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Levitt, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry and a professor of computational structural biology at Stanford University, was fourth laureate to speak on campus recently"}],"uid":"27998","created_gmt":"2014-11-26 11:19:27","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:37","author":"Brittany Aiello","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-11-27T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-11-27T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"329821":{"id":"329821","type":"image","title":"Michael Levitt - Nobel Laureate Lecture Headshot","body":null,"created":"1449245090","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:04:50","changed":"1475895041","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:41","alt":"Michael Levitt - Nobel Laureate Lecture Headshot","file":{"fid":"200322","name":"michael_levitt_nobel_laureate_lecture.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/michael_levitt_nobel_laureate_lecture_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/michael_levitt_nobel_laureate_lecture_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4497182,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/michael_levitt_nobel_laureate_lecture_0.jpg?itok=7Y6OtuBz"}}},"media_ids":["329821"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"110971","name":"computational structural biology"},{"id":"105021","name":"michael levitt"},{"id":"110961","name":"multi-scale modeling"},{"id":"105011","name":"nobel laureate lecture"},{"id":"167386","name":"Stanford"},{"id":"110951","name":"Weismann Institute"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPhillip Taylor\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENews and Media Relations Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ptaylor@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eptaylor@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["ptaylor@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}