Nobel chemistry prize 2024 goes to trio of protein pioneers

US Scientists David Baker and John Jumper and Britain's Demis Hassabis won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the award-giving body said on Wednesday, October 9, for their work on understanding the structure of proteins.

Half the prize was awarded to Baker "for computational protein design" while the other half was shared by Hassabis and Jumper "for protein structure prediction," said the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which makes the award.

Baker is a professor at the University of Washington, in Seattle, while Hassabis is CEO of Google DeepMind, the AI research subsidiary of Google GOOGL.O, where Jumper also works as senior research scientist.

Hassabis and Jumper utilized artificial intelligence to predict the structure of almost all known proteins, while Baker learned how to master life's building blocks and create entirely new proteins, the award-giving body said.

The prize, widely regarded as among the most prestigious in the scientific world, is worth 11 million Swedish crowns ($1.1 million)

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