Google Deepmind founder shares Nobel prize in chemistry for AI that unlocks the shape of proteins

The 2024 Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to three scientists for their work on describing and predicting proteins with the help of computers. One half of the prize goes to David Baker from the University of Washington in the US “for computational protein design”, with the other half jointly awarded to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper, both from Google Deepmind, UK, “for protein structure prediction”.

Using computers to carry out protein design and for predicting protein structures are two sides of the same coin.