The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper by the Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.
This year's prize is about "proteins, life’s ingenious chemical tools."
The prize of 11 million Swedish krona (£810,000) is divided in two; with one half awarded to David Baker from the University of Washington, USA, and the other half jointly awarded to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper from Google DeepMind, UK
Baker is awarded the prize for his work on ‘computational protein design’.
Hassabis and Jumper are awarded the prize for ‘protein structure prediction’
"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." says the Royal Academy of Sciences.
David Baker (born 1962 in Seattle, Washington) is an American
biochemist,
computational biologist who pioneered methods to
design proteins and
predict their three-dimensional structures. (
source: Wikipedia)
Demis Hassabis (born 1976 in London) is a British
computer scientist,
artificial intelligence researcher. He is the
chief executive officer and co-founder of
DeepMind (
Wikipedia)
John M. Jumper is an American senior research scientist at
DeepMind Technologies. Jumper and his colleagues created
AlphaFold an
artificial intelligence (AI) model to predict
protein structures from their
amino acid sequence with high accuracy (
Wikipedia)
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