The Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to scientists David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for their work with proteins.
Hans Ellegren, secretary-general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences that decides on the winner, announced the prize on Wednesday.Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind Technologies, speaks at a Google I/O event in Mountain View, California, on Tuesday, May 14, 2024.
Hassabis and Jumper created an artificial intelligence model that has been able to predict the structure of virtually all the 200 million proteins that researchers have identified, the committee added.
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