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Chemistry Nobel Awarded for Protein Design and Prediction
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was shared by David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John Jumper for their work on protein design and structure prediction.
October 10, 2024
Key Points
- 1The 2024 Nobel Prize for Chemistry was shared by David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John Jumper.
- 2David Baker was awarded for "computational protein design".
- 3Demis Hassabis and John Jumper were awarded for "protein structure prediction".
- 4Mr. Baker's team designed a new protein using bespoke software methods in 2003.
- 5Hassabis and Jumper developed an artificial intelligence model called AlphaFold 2.
- 6AlphaFold 2 could predict the structures of millions of proteins.
Important Terms
Nobel PrizeChemistryProtein DesignAlphaFoldComputational Chemistry
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