True, the chemistry prize this year looks a bit like an engineering prize, because it was given to three researchers – Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt, and Arieh Warshel – “for the development of multiscale models of complex chemical systems” that underlie the computer programs that make nuclear magnetic resonance hardware work. But the Nobel Foundation is forced to look at much more such practical, applied material when it considers the economics prize.
但是诺贝尔工程奖是不存在的，虽然应该有。今年的化学奖看起来确实有点像个工程奖，因为它颁给了三位研究者马丁·卡普拉斯，迈克尔·莱维特和亚利耶·瓦谢尔——“在发展复杂化学系统的多尺度模型方面的贡献”——这一理论基础使驱动核磁共振硬件工作的计算机程序成为现实。但在评定经济学奖时，诺贝尔基金会不得不去寻找一些更具实践应用性的材料。