Accepted Manuscript Editorial Nobel Special Issue of Chemical Physics Letters David Clary, Mitchio Okumura, Villy Sundstrom PII: S0009-2614(13)01325-0 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2013.10.045 Reference: CPLETT 31683 To appear in: Chemical Physics Letters Please cite this article as: D. Clary, M. Okumura, V. Sundstrom, Nobel Special Issue of Chemical Physics Letters, Chemical Physics Letters (2013), doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2013.10.045 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. Nobel Special Issue of Chemical Physics Letters Editorial The hallmark of Chemical Physics Letters is the fast publication of urgent communications of the highest quality. It has not escaped our notice that this policy has allowed several of the breakthrough papers in chemistry to be published in our journal. Indeed, looking through Chemical Physics Letters over the last 42 years we found papers published by as many as 15 authors who went on subsequently to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work linked to their articles. Furthermore, several of these papers were referenced in the Nobel citations. We thought our readers would find it of interest to see a collection of these papers brought together and introduced with summaries explaining their significance and written by the Nobelists themselves, close colleagues or editors of the journal. This Nobel Special Issue is therefore an anthology of 14 papers published in Chemical Physics Letters by John Polanyi, Dudley Herschbach, Yuan Lee, Gerhard Ertl, Rudy Marcus, Bob Curl, Rick Smalley, John Pople, Ahmed Zewail, Jean-Marie Lehn, Mario Molina, Harry Kroto, Alan Heeger, Martin Karplus and Arieh Warshel. We believe that the papers and summaries truly catch the excitement of the science of these ground-breaking pioneers in the field of chemical physics. We would like to think also that this Nobel Special Issue will inspire some of the current authors and readers of Chemical Physics Letters to go on to win the world’s greatest prize in science. David Clary Mitchio Okumura Villy Sundstrom Editors of Chemical Physics Letters .