Demis Hassabis, cofounder and CEO of DeepMind, along with fellow DeepMind researcher John Jumper, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, recognising their groundbreaking work in protein structure prediction through artificial intelligence. They share this honour with biochemist David Baker, who received half of the prize for his advancements in computational protein design. Hassabis and Jumper’s contributions were highlighted for their work on DeepMind’s AlphaFold, an AI tool that predicts complex protein structures from amino acid sequences—solving a scientific problem that has puzzled researchers for five decades.
The Nobel Committee lauded their achievement, describing it as a pivotal moment in biochemistry. “One of the discoveries being recognized this year concerns the construction of spectacular proteins. The other is about fulfilling a 50-year-old dream: predicting protein structures from their amino acid sequences. Both of these discoveries open up vast…
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