sbet Nobel Prize in Chemistry Is Awarded to 3 Scientists for Work With Proteins
sbet Nobel Prize in Chemistry Is Awarded to 3 Scientists for Work With Proteins
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded on Wednesday to David Baker at the University of Washington “for computational protein design” and to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper of Google DeepMind “for protein structure prediction.”
This year’s prize is about the “chemical tools for life,” the Nobel Committee for Chemistry said in announcing the prize. “Work that once took years now takes just a few minutes thanks to this year’s chemistry laureates.”
In 2003, the committee pointed out, Dr. Baker “succeeded in designing a new protein that was unlike any other protein,” which it said was “something that can only be described as an extraordinary development.”
His research group, the committee said in a statement, “has produced one imaginative protein creation after another, including proteins that can be used as pharmaceuticals, vaccines, nanomaterials and tiny sensors.”
Dr. Hassabis and Dr. Jumper, the committee said, have used their A.I. model AlphaFold2 to calculate the structure of all human proteins. The researchers also predicted the structure of virtually all the 200 million proteins that researchers have so far discovered when mapping Earth’s organisms.”
This is a breaking news story that will be updated.
Who received the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry?The prize went to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov for discovering and developing quantum dots, semiconductors made of tightly squeezed particles that are expected to lead to advances in electronics, solar cells and encrypted quantum information.
Who else has received a Nobel Prize in the sciences this year?On Monday, the prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, which helps determine how cells develop and function.
On Tuesday, the prize in Physics was awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton for discoveries that helped computers learn more in the way that the human brain does, providing the building blocks for developments in artificial intelligence.
When will the other Nobel Prizes be announced?The Nobel Prize in Literature will be awarded on Thursday by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. Last year, Jon Fosse of Norway was honored for plays and prose that gave “voice to the unsayable.”
The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded on Friday by the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo. Last year, Narges Mohammadi, an activist in Iran was recognized “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all.” Ms. Mohammadi is serving a 10-year sentence in an Iranian prison where her attorneys have raised concerns about her well-being.
The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences will be awarded on Monday by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Last year, Claudia Goldin was awarded for her research uncovering the reasons for gender gaps in labor force participation and earnings.
All of the prize announcements are streamed live by the Nobel Prize organization.sbet