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Chemistry Nobel goes to Baker for protein design and to Hassabis and Jumper for AlphaFold

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Source: NobelPrize.orgAlso reported by NobelPrize.org (popular information)

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on 9 October, half to David Baker of the University of Washington ‘for computational protein design’ and half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper of Google DeepMind ‘for protein structure prediction’. The academy noted that AlphaFold2 has predicted the structures of almost all 200 million known proteins and has been used by more than two million people in 190 countries.

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Google DeepMind’s chief executive and a senior scientist shared half the chemistry prize for AlphaFold, an AI model the academy says more than two million people in 190 countries have used.

When
9 Oct 2024
ID
WTA-N-2024-0030
Who
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Google DeepMind, University of Washington; David Baker, Demis Hassabis, John Jumper

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from NobelPrize.org and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

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WTA-N-2024-0030: “Chemistry Nobel goes to Baker for protein design and to Hassabis and Jumper for AlphaFold.” wheresthe.ai, 9 Oct 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/se-nobel-chemistry-baker-hassabis-jumper-2024-10/ (source: NobelPrize.org).

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