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Johannes LEDEL

Trio Wins Chemistry Nobel For Protein Design, Prediction

The 2024 chemistry Nobel prize was awarded to Americans David Baker and John Jumper, together with Briton Demis Hassabis (Credit: AFP)

Americans David Baker and John Jumper, together with Briton Demis Hassabis, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for work revealing the secrets of proteins through computing and artificial intelligence.

The three were honoured for cracking the code of the structure of proteins, the building blocks of life, with the jury hailing their work as holding "enormous potential" in a range of fields.

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