Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 is about proteins, life’s ingenious chemical tools.
David Baker has succeeded with the almost impossible feat of building entirely new kinds of proteins. Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have developed an AI model to solve a 50-year-old problem - predicting proteins’ complex structures.
These discoveries hold enormous potential.
Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have successfully utilised artificial intelligence to predict the structure of almost all known proteins.
David Baker has learned how to master life’s building blocks and create entirely new proteins.
David Baker was born in 1962 in Seattle and did his PhD 1989 from the University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. He is a professor at University of Washington, Seattle.
Demis Hassabis was born in 1976 in London, UK; did PhD 2009 from University College London, UK. He is the CEO of Google DeepMind, London, UK.
John M. Jumper was born 1985 in Little Rock, US. He did his PhD 2017 from the University of Chicago, IL, USA. He is a senior research scientist at Google DeepMind, London, UK.
