Chemistry Nobel Prize 2024 Goes To 3 Scientists For Their Work On Protein Design And Structure Prediction

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John M. Jumper for their contributions to computational protein design and protein structure prediction.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry recipients David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John M. Jumper.

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, announced Wednesday that the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2024 will be awarded to David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John M. Jumper. While one half of the prize will go to David Baker for “for computational protein design”, the other half is being given jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction". 

"The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction," the Nobel Prize official handle posted. 

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.” pic.twitter.com/gYrdFFcD4T

— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 9, 2024

This was the 116th Nobel Chemistry Prize to be awarded. The Chemistry Nobel had been awarded 115 times until now, with 194 recipients between 1901 and 2023. Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, and Aleksey Yekimov were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2023 “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots”.

The Nobel prizes for 2024 have already been announced for physiology/medicine and physics.

Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun are getting the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or for their discovery of microRNA and its role, while John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton got the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2024 for their work on machine learning.

While the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel przies for physics and chemistry, The Nobel Foundation collaborates with Karolinska Institute for the Medicine Nobel, the Swedish Academy for Literature Nobel, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee for Peace Nobel.

The 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature will be announced on Thursday, October 10, the Peace Nobel will be announced on Friday, October 11, and the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel will be announced on Monday, October 14.

This report will be updated.