STOCKHOLM: U.S. scientists David Baker and John Jumper, along with Britain’s Demis Hassabis, won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their groundbreaking work on proteins.
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Baker received half the prize for his work in “computational protein design.” The other half was shared by Hassabis and Jumper for their achievements in “protein structure prediction,” announced the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Baker, a professor at the University of Washington, and Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, collaborated with Jumper, a senior researcher at DeepMind, to revolutionise protein research.
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Hassabis and Jumper used AI to predict the structure of almost all known proteins, while Baker created new proteins from scratch, mastering life’s essential building blocks.
The Academy highlighted two main achievements: creating unique proteins and achieving the long-held goal of predicting protein structures based on their amino acid sequences.
