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_Published 2024-10-10. South Korean author Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for a poetic and unsettling body of work that the Nobel committee said “confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”_


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## Transcript

Well Swedish Academy of Sciences has today decided to award the 2024 Nobel Pricing chemistry with one half to David Baker, University of Washington, USA, for computational protein design, and the other half jointly to Damis Hasabs, and John Jumper, Google Deep Mind United Kingdom for protein structure prediction. Well, I was sleeping when the phone rang and I I I answered the phone and I heard the announcement. And then my wife began streaming very loudly. So I I couldn't really hear very well. And the very nice person who who was talking to told me to go somewhere where I could actually listen.

And I think it was very, very exciting, and I think it's turning out to be quite a unique special day. I've been working on protein design for a number of years. And really with the breakthroughs made by Demis and John on protein structure prediction, really highlighted to us the power that AI could have. There is no connection between the prices. Each nobel price is completely on its own feet, and this one is about really biochemical breakthroughs. The connection that exists is that the foundational research in physics that was awarded yesterday, how to do deep learning is part of the breakthrough, how to crack the code of protein structure prediction.

This is an application of artificial intelligence. And I would say an exemplary application in the sense that it addresses a really important problem in a really responsible way in a very well controlled way.

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