Chemistry, Physics Nobels Go to Teams Supported by GPUs
It’s not every day your work assists someone who wins a Nobel Prize. This week GPU computing did it twice.
On Tuesday, an international team of chemists — Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson — won the prize for their work with cryogenic electron microscopy, which allows scientists to see the detailed protein structures that drive the inner workings of cells.
On Monday, a trio of American physicists — Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne — won science’s most prestigious honor for detecting gravitational waves, a phenomenon Albert Einstein predicted more than a century ago.
Read more on the NVIDIA blog.
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