Baker, who works in the United States, will receive half the prize for computational protein design. Hassabis and Jumper, who work in the United Kingdom, get the other half for predicting the complex structures of proteins.
In 2003, Baker achieved the nearly impossible feat of building an entirely new protein from amino acids, the academy said. Since then, his research group has created other proteins, including ones that can be used as drugs, vaccines, nanomaterials and tiny sensors.
Researchers can now better understand antibiotic resistance
Hassabis and Jumper used an artificial intelligence model to solve a 50-year-old problem: predicting complex protein structures, the academy said. Using their model, they could have predicted the structure of virtually all of the 200 million proteins identified by the researchers.
Among other things, researchers can now better understand antibiotic resistance and create images of enzymes that can break down plastic. Hassabis and Jumper work for the company Google Deepmind in London, which specializes in artificial intelligence programming.
To date, 1,004 Nobel Prize winners have been honored
Yesterday, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to two American pioneers of artificial intelligence. The winner of the literature category will also be announced tomorrow, and the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday in Oslo. This year, the Nobel Prizes are endowed with the equivalent of nearly 970,000 euros per category. They will be solemnly presented in December.
From 1901 to the present, 623 Nobel Prizes have been awarded to 1,004 individuals and organizations. Among them, 65 Nobel Prizes have been awarded to women. Marie Curie was awarded twice, with the Physics Prize in 1903 and the Chemistry Prize in 1911. In the country ranking, Germany is in third place behind the United States and Great Britain. Most Germans received awards in the chemistry category, followed by physics, physiology, medicine and literature. The Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded to Germany four times; However, the latter has only been awarded since 1969.
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