U.S. scientist John Jumper and British scientist Demis Hassabis spoke about the “surreal” moment they won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday (October 9) for work on decoding the structure of proteins and creating new ones, yielding advances in areas such as drug development.

Hassabis, 48, is CEO of Google DeepMind, the AI research subsidiary of Google GOOGL.O, where Jumper, 39, also works as senior research scientist.

Hassabis and Jumper utilised artificial intelligence to predict the structure of almost all known proteins, while Baker learned how to master life's building blocks and create entirely new proteins, the award-giving body said.

Half the prize was shared by Hassabis and Jumper and the other half was awarded to U.S. scientist David Baker "for computational protein design" while the other.

The prize, widely regarded as among the most prestigious in the scientific world, is worth 11 million Swedish crowns ($1.1 million).

In 2020, Hassabis and Jumper presented an AI model called AlphaFold2. With its help, they have been able to predict the structure of virtually all the 200 million proteins that researchers have identified, the academy said.

(Production: Ben Makori, Marissa Davison)

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