2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to scientists who revealed a 'completely new world of protein structures'

Three men sit at a table to announce the Nobel Prize in chemistry, with the winners on a screen behind them.

The 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to three scientists who work in two closely intertwined fields of protein science.

David Baker, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Washington, received half of the 11 million Swedish krona ($1.06 million) prize for his work on computational protein design — a tool that enables researchers to design and create completely novel protein structures with properties unlike any found in nature.