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  • This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper.
  • The three are being honored for their research into protein structure prediction.

This year, half of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to David Baker (USA), and half to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper, both of whom work in Great Britain.

Baker receives the prize for computational protein design, Hassabis and Jumper for predicting the complex structures of proteins. This was announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.

Awarding of the prizes according to Alfred Nobel’s last wishes


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The Nobel Prizes have been awarded since 1901.

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According to Nobel’s will, the Nobel Prizes are intended to honor those who have provided the greatest benefit to humanity in each category in the previous year. They can go to an individual prize winner or up to three people chosen at the same time. Especially in the science categories, it often happens that several award winners are honored together, for example, they have researched the same topic.

All Nobel Prizes are traditionally presented on the anniversary of Nobel’s death on December 10th. This year, the awards are once again worth eleven million Swedish crowns (around 910,000 Swiss francs) per category. If two people share the honor, this prize money will be divided between them.


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