Prof. David Baker, of the University of Washington School of Medicine, shared the 2024 Nobel Chemistry Prize with two other scientists “for their use of artificial intelligence in predicting protein structures from their amino acid sequences.” Their work may enable humas to “design[...]
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Research behind Covid-19 vaccines doesn’t win Nobel Prize
It read like a script for a made-for-TV movie: Fighting peer rejection, job losses, and self-doubt, Katalin Karikó “spent decades researching the therapeutic possibilities of mRNA” because she was convinced it “could be used for something truly groundbreaking.” And it was: The Pfizer and Mo[...]
October 10th, 2014 - 11:31 am § in Misc.
The Nobel Peace Prize Committee’s Subtle Agenda In 2014
Save the planet, or at least a major part of it, from the insanity of a nuclear exchange. That’s what this year’s Nobel Peace Prize award really aims to achieve, behind the scenes of its overt recognition of children’s rights and education activism. The Nobel Peace Prize, awarded[...]