Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for work on proteins

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The three scientists contributed to science by creating AI protein models and innovative designs including proteins that can be used as pharmaceuticals, vaccines, nanomaterials and tiny sensors, the Nobel committee said.

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00:00Three scientists received the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work with proteins,

00:06which are considered the building blocks of life. The six days of Nobel Prize announcements

00:11opened earlier this week, with the Nobel Peace Prize to be announced on Friday.

00:16The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has today decided to award the 2024 Nobel Prize

00:23in chemistry with one half to David Baker, University of Washington, USA, for computational

00:31protein design, and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John Yamper, Google

00:39DeepMind United Kingdom, for protein structure prediction.

00:45The prize carries a cash award of almost one million euro. Last year, the award went to

00:50three scientists for their work on quantum dots.

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