Trio wins chemistry Nobel for protein design, prediction

The three were honoured for cracking the code of the structure of proteins, the building blocks of life, with the jury hailing their work as holding "enormous potential" in a range of fields. Biochemist Baker, 62, was given half the award "for computational protein design", while Hassabis and Jumper shared the other half "for protein structure prediction," the Nobel committee said. "David Baker has succeeded with the almost impossible feat of building entirely new kinds of proteins," it said in a statement.