Google DeepMind scientists win Nobel chemistry prize

Google DeepMind scientists win Nobel chemistry prize

British founder of DeepMind Demis Hassabis, John Jumper and David Baker share prize for protein structure breakthroughs

Two scientists at Google DeepMind and an American biochemist have been awarded the 2024 Nobel prize in chemistry for breakthroughs in predicting and designing the structure of proteins.

Demis Hassabis, DeepMind’s British founder, and John Jumper, who led the development of the company’s AI model AlphaFold– which predicts the structure of proteins based on their chemical sequence– share half of the prize.

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