Who among the following won Nobel Prize for Chemistry for 2024?
(A) John H. Hopfield
(B) David Baker
(C) Demis Hassabis
(D) John Jumper
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → (B), (C) and (D) only
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 was given for work on proteins: one half for designing new proteins on the computer, the other half for predicting the structure of proteins.
(A) John H. Hopfield Incorrect. Hopfield shared the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 with Geoffrey Hinton, for discoveries that made machine learning with artificial neural networks possible.
(B) David Baker Correct. He received half the prize for computational protein design, building proteins that do not exist in nature.
(C) Demis Hassabis Correct. He shared the other half for protein structure prediction with the AI model AlphaFold2, developed at Google DeepMind.
(D) John Jumper Correct. He shared that half with Hassabis as a co-developer of AlphaFold2.