US Scientists David Baker and John Jumper and Britain’s Demis Hassabis won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the award-giving body said on Wednesday, for their work on understanding the structure of proteins, Report informs via Reuters.

Half the prize was awarded to Baker “for computational protein design” while the other half was shared by Hassabis and Jumper “for protein structure prediction”, said the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which makes the award.

Baker is a professor at the University of Washington, in Seattle, while Hassabis is CEO of Google DeepMind, the AI research subsidiary of Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab, where Jumper also works as senior research scientist.