The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded on Wednesday, October 9, to the American David Baker, the British Demis Hassabis and the American John Jumper for their work on proteins. David Baker was awarded “for the computational design of proteins”and Demis Hassabis and John Jumper “for protein structure prediction”the Swedish Academy announced in a press release.
“David Baker has achieved the almost impossible feat of manufacturing entirely new categories of proteins”the Academy specified. “Demis Hassabis and John Jumper developed an AI model to solve a 50-year-old problem: predicting complex protein structures. These discoveries have enormous potential. »
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