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Who won Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2024?
ANone of These
BJ J Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton
CVictor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun
DDavid Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper
Correct answer
D. David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper
Explanation
Scientists David Baker, John Jumper and Demis Hassabis have won the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on proteins, the building blocks of life that are found in every cell of the body. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Wednesday announced half of the prize to Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Hassabis and Jumper “for protein structure prediction”.