NEW DELHI: The Nobel prize in Chemistry 2024 has been awarded to David Baker for “for computational protein style ” with the other half jointly awarded to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for proteins construction forecast. ”
The Nobel committee at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences made this statement on Wednesday, a moment after two inventors John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton, won the physics prize for artificial knowledge.
Last month, the chemical prize was awarded to a group of scientists for their studies on classical dots, which are microscopic particles measuring only a few nanometers in size.
Who are the awardees and what did they develop
David Baker:” Computational protein style ”
Nobel Prize winner in science David Baker, aged 62 has” succeeded with the almost difficult feat of building wholly new forms of proteins,” the commission said in a speech.
His labor has led to the creation of protein that” can be used as medicine, vaccinations, nanomaterials and little sensors,” it added.
In recent years, his experiment has produced a series of breakthrough protein works, including modern nanoparticles in which up to 120 proteins voluntarily link together. These developments have opened up interesting opportunities for new materials and applications in technology.
Demis Hassabis & John M. Jumper:” Protein construction forecast”
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awardees, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, have effectively harnessed artificial knowledge to determine the composition of almost all recognized protein.
Demis and John, leaders at Google Deepmind, have developed a groundbreaking “A I model to solve a 50-year-old problem: predicting proteins ‘ complex structures. ”
Hassabis, 48, and Jumper, born in 1985, were widely speculated to be contenders for this year’s Nobel Prize for their work on the AI model AlphaFold.
In 2020, they introduced an AI model called AlphaFold2, which has since enabled the prediction of the structure of virtually all 200 million proteins identified by researchers. Since their groundbreaking achievement, AlphaFold2 has been used by over two million people across 190 countries. This innovation has a wide range of scientific applications, including advancing our understanding of antibiotic resistance and visualizing enzymes capable of breaking down plastic.
This tool predicts the three-dimensional structure of proteins based on their amino acid sequences.
The Nobel announcements, which span over six days, began on Monday with Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun being honored with the medicine prize.
The prize includes a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor ($ 1 million ), which originates from a bequest left by the award’s founder, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. The laureates are invited to accept their awards at ceremonies held on December 10, marking the anniversary of Nobel’s death.
The literature prize will be announced on Thursday, followed by the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
While the economics award will be revealed on Oct. 14.