College of Washington biochemist David Baker has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in “computational protein design.” He’ll obtain half of the $1.1 million prize; the opposite half will likely be cut up between Demis Hassabis and John Jumper of Google DeepMind, who gained for “protein construction prediction.” In keeping…
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded Princeton College professor emeritus John Hopfield, together with Geoffrey Hinton of the College of Toronto, the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics “for foundational discoveries and innovations that allow machine studying with synthetic neural networks.” Hopfield, 91, used instruments from physics to develop an associative reminiscence that may…
Two American scientists have gained the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medication for the invention of microRNA “and its function in post-transcriptional gene regulation,” the Nobel committee introduced Monday. Victor Ambros, who’s affiliated with the College of Massachusetts Medical Faculty, and Gary Ruvkun, who’s at Harvard Medical Faculty, shared the prize for his or…
In a 2013 weblog put up, the good Ursula Ok. Le Guin quotes a London Instances Literary Supplement column by a “J.C.,” who satirically professionalposes the “Jean-Paul Sartre Prize for Prize Refusal.” “Writers throughout Europe and America are fliping down awards within the hope of being nominated for a Sartre,” writes J.C., “The Sartre Prize…