Three scientists win Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on proteins

Scientists David Baker, John Jumper and Demis Hassabis win the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on the structure of proteins.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced one half of the prize to Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Hassabis and Jumper “for protein structure prediction”.

The prize carries a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor ($1m) from a bequest left by the award’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel.