Google researchers won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry – | RCO News Agency

According to Mehr reporter, the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to 3 chemists.

Half of this prize was awarded to David Baker from the University of Washington, USA, for his research on computational protein design, and the other half was jointly awarded to Demis Hasabis and John Jumper, Google’s DeepMind researchers in England, for predicting protein structure.

David Baker, an American biochemist and computational biologist, was born in 1962 in America. He is a professor of biochemistry and a researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The artificial intelligence programs developed by Baker and his colleagues have generally solved the problem of protein structure prediction. He also won the Wiley Award in 2022.

Demis Hasabis is a 48-year-old English computer scientist. Before this, he was a programmer and designer of artificial intelligence computer games. He is currently the CEO and co-founder of DeepMind as well as Isomorphic Labs. In addition, he is also an artificial intelligence consultant for the British government.

John Michael Jumper is an American Senior Research Fellow at DeepMind Technology. He and his colleagues developed an artificial intelligence model, Alphafold, that predicts protein structure from amino acid sequences with high accuracy. He previously claimed that the Alpha Fold team plans to publish 100 million protein structures. He studied at the University of Chicago.