Three Scientists Win Nobel Prize In Chemistry For Groundbreaking Protein Research

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to scientists David Baker, John Jumper, and Demis Hassabis for research into proteins. The Nobel Committee hailed the laureates for revealing proteins’ secrets through computing and artificial intelligence technology. 

According to the Nobel Committee, David Baker has succeeded with the almost impossible feat of building entirely new kinds of proteins. Meanwhile, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have developed an AI model to solve a 50-year-old problem: predicting proteins’ complex structures. "Both of these discoveries open up vast possibilities,” said Heiner Linke, Chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry.

David Baker works at the University of Washington in Seattle, United States. It is worth mentioning that Demis Hassabis and John Jumper both work at Google Deepmind in London. Notably, a Nobel Prize can be shared by up to three individuals, or in the case of the peace prize, it can also be awarded to an organisation.