Google DeepMind scientists win Nobel chemistry prize | Nobel prizes

Two scientists at Google DeepMind and an American biochemist have been awarded the 2024 Nobel prize in chemistry for breakthroughs in predicting and designing the structure of proteins.

Demis Hassabis, DeepMind’s British founder, and John Jumper, who led the development of the company’s AlphaFold protein prediction software, share half of the prize.

The other half of the prize was awarded to Prof David Baker, of the University of Washington, whose computational research has led to the creation of entirely new kinds of proteins.

Announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, the winners share the 11m Swedish kronor (£810,000) prize for “Computational protein design and protein structure prediction”.

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