The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024

By Marcell Stippinger 2024-10-09

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 was divided, one half awarded to David Baker “for computational protein design”, the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction”.

Illustration of the alpha-fold algorithm (©Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)

Artificial intelligence helps to predict the structure of proteins from their amino acid sequences and to design new proteins that can be used as pharmaceuticals, nanomaterials and tiny sensors.

Source: www.nobelprize.prg