The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to David Baker «for the computational design of proteins» and jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper «for the prediction of protein structure». Baker works at the University of Washington in Seattle, while Hassabis and Jumper both work at Google Deepmind in London.
In 2003, Baker designed a new protein, and since then, his research team has produced a creation of proteins including ones that can be used as drugs, vaccines, nanomaterials and tiny sensors, the Nobel committee said. Hassabis and Jumper created an artificial intelligence model that was able to predict the structure of nearly all of the 200 million proteins identified by the researchers, the committee added. Last year, the chemistry prize went to three scientists for their work on quantum dots, tiny particles just a few nanometers in diameter that can release very bright colored light and whose applications in everyday life include electronics and medical imaging. The awards ceremony will continue on Thursday with the literature prize. The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday and that for economics on October 14.
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the Nobel Prize winners of 2024 have made significant contributions to their respective fields, and their work has the potential to transform our understanding of the world and improve human lives. As we celebrate these achievements, we are reminded of the power of human ingenuity and the importance of scientific research in driving progress and innovation.
