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 construction of proteins.
Demis Hassabis, DeepMind’s British founder, and John Jumper, who led the event of the corporate’s AlphaFold protein prediction software program, share half of the prize.
The opposite half of the prize was awarded to Prof David Baker, of the College of Washington, whose computational analysis has led to the creation of totally new sorts of proteins.
Introduced 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 construction prediction”.
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