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AlphaFold earns Hassabis and Jumper the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2024)

On October 9, 2024 Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and John Jumper shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with David Baker. The prize recognized AlphaFold, an AI system that predicts a protein's 3D structure from its amino acid sequence, and Baker's work on computational protein design. According to Google, the AlphaFold structure database had already been used by more than 2 million researchers in 190 countries.

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Header image of Google’s post on the 2024 Chemistry Nobel. Google, October 9, 2024 · Source: Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis & John Jumper awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry · Image by Google, displayed from the original server; not covered by the museum’s CC BY 4.0 license.

October 9, 2024

2024 Chemistry Nobel for Hassabis and Jumper

Event · AI and research · Concluded

sources · timeline 2020–2024

Interpretive reconstruction · AI era Early generative-AI conventions (2020–2026): very rounded corners, blue-violet gradients and answers in chat bubbles. Does not reproduce any Google page.

Dates

  • October 9, 2024 Date · exact date [1]

What the sources say

ClaimRecordConfidenceSources
Laureates Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, with David Baker 2 · Single primary source [1] primary
AlphaFold use More than 2 million researchers in 190 countries
Statement		 2 · Single primary source [1] primary

What the confidence levels mean

Historical captures

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Sources

  1. Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis & John Jumper awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry — Google, October 9, 2024. Source primary · accessed November 2, 2026 · look for a copy on the Internet Archive

What still needs documenting

  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences press release
  • AlphaFold and AlphaFold 2's own record (CASP14, 2020)

On GD

GD has followed Google since 2006. Search GD for “AlphaFold” (in Portuguese)

How to cite

"AlphaFold earns Hassabis and Jumper the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2024)", Google Museum (GD), https://gd.eurisko.com.br/museu/en/collection/nobel-quimica-alphafold-2024/, CC BY 4.0. Reviewed on November 2, 2026.

ID: nobel-quimica-alphafold-2024 · Reviewed on November 2, 2026