Nobel Prize for 2024 given for this discovery in Chemistry, know the names of the three winning scientists

Stockholm: The Nobel Prize winners in the field of Chemistry have been announced. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Wednesday 09 October that the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be awarded to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper. These people have been given this award for their unprecedented contribution to protein science.

David Baker of the University of Washington in Seattle, US, was awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “Computational Protein Design”, while Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper of Google DeepMind, London, UK received it for “Protein Structure Prediction”. Award has been given.

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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

According to media reports, Heiner Linke, chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, said, “One of the discoveries recognized this year is related to the creation of luxurious proteins. The second quest is about fulfilling a 50-year-old dream. Predicting protein structures from their amino acid sequences. “Both these discoveries open up immense possibilities.” David Baker designed a protein in 2003.

David Baker designed a new protein

David Baker has achieved the extraordinary feat of designing an entirely new protein, while Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model to solve a 50-year-old challenge of predicting the complex three-dimensional structures of proteins. have developed. In 2003, Baker successfully designed a new protein. Since then, his research group has created many innovative proteins that can be used in pharmaceuticals, vaccines, nanomaterials, and sensors.

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Meanwhile, Hassabis and Jumper's AI-based breakthrough came in 2020 with the introduction of AlphaFold2. Their model can predict the structure of nearly all 200 million proteins identified by researchers. This was an achievement that was previously considered impossible.

Life is impossible without protein

“Life is not possible without proteins,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in a statement. “We can now predict protein structures and design our own proteins, which is one of the greatest benefits to mankind.”

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