The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to the Americans David Baker and John Jumper, as well as the British Demis Hassabis for their research on proteins

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was assigned, Wednesday October 9, to the American David Baker for his work on “computational protein design”, as well as the British Demis Hassabis and the American John Jumper for their research on “the prediction of the three-dimensional structure of proteins”, explains the press release.

Google DeepMind director John Jumper and CEO and co-founder Demis Hassabis have already received the prestigious Lasker Prize in 2023. While Jumper and Hassabis’ paper published in 2021 has been cited thousands of times, it is unusual for the Nobel jury to reward a work so quickly after its publication.

The prize, which was announced in Stockholm, is the third Nobel of the season after that in physics awarded Tuesday to British-Canadian physicists Geoffrey Hinton and American John Hopfield for crucial research in the development of AI.

The season continues with the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday and the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in Oslo. The Nobel Prize in Economics, awarded for the first time in 1969, will be awarded on Monday October 14. For the winners of the 2024 vintage, the check accompanying the prize is for eleven million crowns (920,000 euros), to be shared in the event of multiple winners.