STOCKHOLM — US scientists David Baker and John Jumper and Briton Demis Hassabis won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday (Oct 9) for work on decoding the structure of proteins and creating new ones, yielding advances in areas such as drug development.
Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper, two of the three laureates who have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2024, look on, at the offices of Google DeepMind UK in London, Britain, Oct 9, 2024.STOCKHOLM — US scientists David Baker and John Jumper and Briton Demis Hassabis won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for work on decoding the structure of proteins and creating new ones, yielding advances in areas such as drug development.
"It's totally surreal to be honest, quite overwhelming," Hassabis told Reuters, thanking DeepMind and Google, and his colleague Jumper. The prize, widely regarded as among the most prestigious in the scientific world, is worth 11 million Swedish crowns .Baker said he was sound asleep when the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences called.
In 2003, Baker was able to use amino acids, often described as life's building blocks, to design a new protein that was unlike any existing one, the academy said.
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