University of Washington biochemist David Baker has won a share of this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry for deciphering protein structures.

David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John M Jumper have been awarded the 2024 Nobe Prize for Chemistry. The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded in one half to Baker “for computational protein design” and the second half jointly to Hassabis and Jumper “for protein structure prediction”, said the Nobel Prize committee on Wednesday.

For the physics prize yesterday’s winner Geoffrey Hinton isn’t directly connected to any Nobel prize winners – he has no laureate ‘parents’ or ‘grandparents’. Equally, John Hopfield has no connections to any Nobel laureates up to his ‘great grandparents’.