Published 9 October 2024 by LINO News
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024
On Wednesday, 9 October 2024, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded one half of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to David Baker “for computational protein designs” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction”.
From the press release of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences:
“The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 is about proteins, life’s ingenious chemical tools. David Baker has succeeded with the almost impossible feat of building entirely new kinds of proteins. Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have developed an AI model to solve a 50-year-old problem: predicting proteins’ complex structures. These discoveries hold enormous potential.
The diversity of life testifies to proteins’ amazing capacity as chemical tools. They control and drive all the chemical reactions that together are the basis of life. Proteins also function as hormones, signal substances, antibodies and the building blocks of different tissues.”
Read more about the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.