STOCKHOLM – The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is announcing the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday.

There have been 116 chemistry prizes given to 195 individuals between 1901 and 2024.

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The 2024 prize was awarded to David Baker, a biochemist at the University of Washington in Seattle, and to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, computer scientists at Google DeepMind, a British-American artificial intelligence research laboratory based in London.

The three were awarded for discovering powerful techniques to decode and even design novel proteins, the building blocks of life . Their work used advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence , and holds the potential to transform how new drugs and other materials are made.

The first Nobel of 2025 was ann

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