Here is a brief overview of the educational backgrounds of the 2024 Nobel Chemistry Prize winners:
1. David Baker:
• Ph.D. in 1989 from the University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of Randy Schekman. His research focused on protein structure prediction. He is currently a professor at the University of Washington and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute .
2. Demis Hassabis:
• Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience from University College London (UCL) in 2009. Before this, he had a successful career as a game developer and AI researcher. Hassabis is currently the CEO of Google DeepMind, where he led the development of AlphaFold2 .
3. John Jumper:
• Ph.D. in 2017 from the University of Chicago, where he specialized in quantum chemistry and biophysics. He is a senior research scientist at Google DeepMind, contributing significantly to the AlphaFold2 project .
These scientists have made transformative contributions to computational biology and protein science.
