Levinthal's Paradox
A protein has more possible shapes than the universe has atoms, yet it finds the right one in less than a thousandth of a second.
1968–196917 min read
Theoretical chemistry and biophysics
Peter G. Wolynes
1953
American theoretical chemist, now at Rice University, who brought the statistical mechanics of spin glasses to protein folding. With Joseph Bryngelson he introduced the principle of minimal frustration in 1987, the idea that grew into energy landscape theory and the folding funnel.