At the press conference held at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry were announced.
According to the statement, David Baker won the award for his work in the field of “computational protein design”, while Demis Hassabis and John Jumper were also deemed worthy of this award for their work in the field of “protein structure prediction”.
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Moungi Gabriel Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov for their work on the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.
ABOUT THE NOBEL PRIZES
The awards given by the Nobel Foundation, which was established on June 9, 1900, after the death of the Swedish Alfred Nobel, to those who served humanity, are considered the most prestigious awards in the world.
Nobel Prizes are given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, the Karolinska Institute and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to the individuals or organizations deemed most successful in 5 branches: physics, chemistry, literature, peace and medicine.
In addition, the Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded for the first time in 1969, when the Swedish Central Bank decided in 1968 to award an award in economics in memory of Alfred Nobel.
Nobel Prizes are delivered to their owners at a ceremony held every year on December 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death.
On the other hand, there have been several years when the prizes were not awarded since their inception in 1901. Most of the award cancellations, 49 in total, occurred during the First and Second World Wars.
The award ceremonies could not be held in 2020 and 2021 due to the coronavirus outbreak.
