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Google DeepMind scientists and biochemist win Nobel chemistry prize
Demis Hassabis and John Jumper of DeepMind and computational biologist David Baker share prize for protein structure breakthroughs
Two scientists at Google DeepMind and an American biochemist have been awarded the 2024 Nobel prize in chemistry for breakthroughs in predicting and designing the structure of proteins.
Demis Hassabis, DeepMind’s British founder, and John Jumper, who led the development of the company’s AI model AlphaFold– which predicts the structure of proteins based on their chemical sequence – share half of the prize.
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