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(Stockholm, Sweden) — Two Americans and a Briton are sharing this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work using AI in working with proteins. David Baker, a professor at the University of Washington, was awarded half the prize for using computer methods to create proteins that didn’t previously exist. John Jumper and Demis Hassabis won the second half of the prize, for their work at Google’s AI research lab DeepMind on developing tools to predict the structures of almost all 200 million known proteins, what the Nobel committee calls the “chemical tools of life.”
