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References:
(a)
ÒWithout Test Tubes, 3 Win Nobel in ChemistryÓ
KENNETH CHANG, The New York Times, October 9, 2013
<http://tinyurl.com/mk2gdql>
(b) Takeshi Utsumi, GLOSAS/USA
"Globally Collaborative Environmental Peace Gaming (GCEPG)"
http://tinyurl.com/k2c7a
This has been outgrown to the following project;
(c) Utsumi, T., ÒThe Global Knowledge Center Network (GKCN) with The Global
University System (GUS)Ó (June 25, 2013)
<http://tinyurl.com/o5l22ll>
(d) Kirk-Othmer
Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/0471238961>
(e) Item (2) of;
(20121203) Request of help from the Executive Director IOCD
(International Organization for Chemical Sciences in Development)
<http://tinyurl.com/cswt5be>
Dear E-Colleagues:
(1) I am extremely happy to know that the Nobel
Prize in Chemistry of this year was awarded to Profs. Martin Karplus of the
University of Strasbourg in France and Harvard University; Michael Levitt of Stanford University; and Arieh Warshel
of the University of Southern California.
This is for their work on analysis of chemical reaction with computer
simulation without the use of test tubes.
(2) My happiness is because of the following two folds;
(a)
Field: analysis of chemical reaction — same as mine — see below;
(b) Method: use of computer simulation — my life-long profession —
see below.
(3) As for the Item (2)-(a) above, my Ph.D. Thesis work at the chemical
engineering department of now New York University/Polytechnic Institute
pioneered on the analysis of the effect of heat generated by chemical reaction
on the rate of diffusion for the absorption of acidic gas (SO2 or NO-x, etc.)
into alkali solution with the use of ÒTwo-Film TheoryÓ (*). It was about
the time when Rachel Carson published the famous book ÒSilent SprintÓ in 1962. In
a sense, my Ph.D. Work was also a forerunner prior to the subsequent cleaning
air-pollution problems around the world — particularly around
petrochemical center in Yokkaichi-City in Japan — Reference (b) above.
Pls
visit Reference (e) above how I used a slow-time analog computer made by Bell Lab in New Jersey for
this work, which was once mounted in the battleship Missouri on which General
MacArthur signed the peace treaty with the Japanese Foreign Minister, Mr. Sigemitsu at the end of the last WWII — BTW, the
analog computer was used for gun trucking to bombard Hitachi City located
northeast of Tokyo — which big sound I heard in my home town which was
almost 400 miles away in the middle of Japan main island.
(*) The ÒTwo-Film TheoryÓ was also used by our colleague, Dr. Thomas Mensah, when he
invented the fast extrusion of optical fiber which initiated the broadband
Internet in global scale, which changed the world!! This
theory was devised by Dr. McCabe, who was the thesis professor to Dr. Donald Othmer at the University of Michigan, both of them
were my thesis advisors.
(4) As for the Item (2)-(b) above, one of professors in the chemical
engineering department questioned me how to make chemical reaction in computer
— I (a graduate student) was way ahead of professors there.
My Ph.D.
Thesis professor was Dr. Donald Othmer (Reference (d)
above). Around that time in the
late 1950s to early 1960s, not many professors knew about computer — let
alone the analog computer. Dr. Othmer called me
to his office and said to me, ÒI know logarithm, but I donÕt know algorithm.
What is that?Ó Of course, without much English capability, I didnÕt
know it either. Since there werenÕt so many books about computer that
time, I had to visit then existed Engineering Library nearby the UN, NY City
Library and the library of the Chemists Club and so on. I was indulged in
reading many, many books to fulfill my thirsty young brain. I then
realized this was the way big professor teach his students about what he
doesnÕt know himself either!!
Pls
visit Reference (e) above to learn how he made US$750
million (which may be over one billion dollars nowadays!!) — out of which
he donated $175 million to the Polytechnic Institute of New York University and
$25 million to Kings Hospital in Brooklyn for taking care of his wifeÕs
Alzheimer disease — those are the world record number as of the college
professorÕs donations.
(5)
Anyway, the computer simulation has now been recognized as a legitimate
scientific field for the Nobel Prize.
My next dream is to see the Nobel Prize on the use of computer simulation in
the fields for paradigm shift in international political science for global
peace keeping, and the basis of constructing an Electronic United Nations out
of our Global Early Warning System (GEWS) — see Reference (c) above, etc.
Best, Tak
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Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E., Chairman
GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association in
the U.S.A. (GLOSAS/USA)
Laureate of Lord Perry Award for Excellence in Distance Education
Founder and V.P. for Technology and Coordination of Global University System
(GUS)
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