AI: Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein researcher from Google Deepmind
Two scientists from Google Deepmind have been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their research into proteins with the help of AI.
(Image: Nobel Media / Alexander Mahmoud)
Half of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry will go to David Baker from the University of Washington and the other half to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper from the AI company Google Deepmind. Baker has been successful in creating completely new types of proteins. Hassabis and Jumper have developed an AI model to predict complex protein structures, according to a statement from Stockholm.
11 million Swedish kronor
After medicine and physics, chemistry is traditionally the third of a total of six prize categories in which the Nobel Prizes are awarded by various institutions in Stockholm and Oslo. Last year , the Chemistry Prize went to Moungi Bawanedi, Louis Brus and Alexei Jekimow for fundamental work in nanotechnology through the discovery and development of quantum dots.
The Nobel Prize for Literature will follow on Thursday and the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Finally, next Monday, the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences will be awarded, which is the only prize that is not based on the will of the prize's founder and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel (1833-1896).
This year's Nobel Prizes are once again endowed with 11 million Swedish kronor (just under 970,000 euros) per prize category. If the award goes to two or three winners in a category at the same time, they share this sum. The world-famous Nobel Medals are then presented at a ceremony on the anniversary of Nobel's death, December 10.
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