The Royal Academy of Sciences of Sweden announced on the 9th that it will award the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to David Baker of the University of Washington at Seattle for "computational protein design", and the other half will be jointly awarded to Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind in London, United Kingdom and John M. Jumper of Google DeepMind in London, United Kingdom for "protein structure prediction".
According to the official website of the Nobel Prize, the prize money for each Nobel Prize this year is 11 million Sweden kronor (about 7.45 million yuan).
Let's look back at the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in the past five years
2023
United States MIT professor Mongi ·Bavendi, United States Colombia professor Louis · Bruce, and United States nanocrystal technology scientist Alex·ei Yekimov were awarded for their contributions to the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.
2022
United States scientists Caroline · Bertozzi, Carl · Barry· Sharpless, and Denmark scientist Morten · Meldahl were awarded for their contributions to the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.
2021
German scientist Benjamin · Lister and United States scientist David · Macmillan were awarded for their contributions to the "development of asymmetric organocatalysis". Their inventions revolutionized the way humans synthesized molecules, had a huge impact on drug research, and made chemistry greener.
2020
Two women scientists, Emmanuelle · Charpentier, France professor at the Max Planck Institute for Etiology · Germany, and Jennifer · Daldener, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, United States. Since these two female scientists developed the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology, this magical "gene scissors" has brought life science into a new era.
2019
United States chemists Stanley · Whittingham, John · Goodenough, and Japan chemist Akira Yoshino received awards for their pioneering contributions to the development of lithium-ion batteries.
Source丨Wenhui client editor丨Wu Zebin