Scientists David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the award-giving body said on Wednesday, for work on the structure of proteins.
The prize, widely regarded as among the most prestigious in the scientific world, is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and is worth 11 million Swedish crowns ($1.1 million).
Half the prize was awarded to Baker “for computational protein design” while the other half was shared by Hassabis and Jumper “for protein structure prediction," the academy said.
The third award to be handed out every year, the chemistry prize follows those for medicine and physics announced earlier this week.
First handed out in 1901, 15 years after Nobel’s death, it is awarded for achievements in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and peace.
Persons:
David Baker, Demis Hassabis, John Jumper, Baker “, Alfred Nobel, ”, Alfred Nobel’s, Ernest Rutherford, Marie Curie, Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, Aleksey Ekimov
Organizations:
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Hassabis
Locations:
Swedish, Stockholm