David Baker, John Jumper & Demis Hassabis awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Scientists David Baker, John Jumper, and Demis Hassabis have won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for breakthroughs in predicting and designing the structure of proteins. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences yesterday announced half of the prize to David Baker for computational protein design and the other half jointly to John Jumper and Demis Hassabis for protein structure prediction. 

The Nobel Committee for Chemistry, in a



statement, said David Baker built entirely new kinds of proteins, and John Jumper and Demis Hassabis developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model to solve a 50-year-old problem: predicting proteins’ complex structures.

Mr Baker works at the University of Washington in Seattle, United States, while Mr Hassabis and Mr Jumper work at Google DeepMind, the tech giant’s AI lab, in London.