Hassabis is a British Candidate Master in chess and an expert in various other games. At the age of 13, he was ranked second in the world for his age, behind only Judit Polgรกr.
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker โfor computational protein designโ and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper โfor protein structure prediction.โ pic.twitter.com/gYrdFFcD4T
Huge congratulations to @DemisHassabis and John Jumper on being awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein structure prediction with #AlphaFold, along with David Baker for computational protein design.