Nobel Prize 2024 in Chemistry awarded to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper. They successfully cracked the code for proteins amazing structures.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 is about proteins, life’s ingenious chemical tools. David Baker (Biochemistry Professor) has succeeded with the almost impossible feat of building entirely new kinds of proteins. Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model to solve a nearly 50-year-old problem: predicting proteins’ complex structures.
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David Baker: For computational protein design
Demis Hassabis: For protein structure prediction
John Jumper: For protein structure prediction
Practice MCQs:
1. Recently, David Baker won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for?
(A) Protein structure prediction
(B) Discovery of microRNA
(C) Computational protein design
(D) Development of quantum computers
Answer: (C) Computational protein design
2. Which problem is solve by 2024 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry Demis Hassabis and John Jumper with their AI model?
(A) Gene regulation
(B) Microbial resistance
(C) Predicting protein structures
(D) Artificial intelligence ethics
Answer: (C) Predicting protein structures
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