A scientist of Greek Cypriot origin, Demis Hassabis, has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize for chemistry, along with other two other colleagues.
The trio won the award for having successfully used artificial intelligence to crack the code of almost all known proteins, known as the “chemical tools of life”.
Hassabis was born to a Greek Cypriot father and a Singaporean mother and grew up in north London.
He is a neuroscientist, video game designer, entrepreneur and world champion in chess and poker.