Half of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry will go to American researcher David Baker of the University of Washington (USA) “for computer-aided protein design” and the other half to British-born Demis Hassabis and his American colleague John M. Jumper Both work at Google DeepMind in London, “for predicting protein structure.”
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced this in Stockholm on Wednesday.
“Discoveries with enormous potential”
Baker “succeeded in the almost impossible feat of building completely new types of proteins,” the Nobel Prize Committee pointed out. To solve a fifty-year-old problem, Hassabis and Jumper developed an artificial intelligence model that can predict the complex structures of proteins. “These discoveries have enormous potential,” the report said.
The three laureates have already been named the favorites for this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry by the data company Clarivate, because they are among the most cited scientists.
The award carries eleven million Swedish crowns (approximately 970,000 euros). The prize is traditionally awarded on December 10, the anniversary of founder Alfred Nobel’s death.
Last year the prize went to American scientists Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Yekimow for the discovery and production of quantum dots.
Source: Krone
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