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The developers of AlphaFold were given a chemistry prize for predictingProtein structures
Google DeepMind’s Senior VP and Director of Business Development, Amit Goel, said it was “appropriate” for Google DeepMind’s work to be nominated for the Nobel Prize in computer science. “It is appropriate that our work to be nominated for the prize for computer science,” Goel said. This comes after Google DeepMind named Goel for the…
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How the team at DNA did not help Rosalind Franklin
Researchers at King’s College London, who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize with James Watson and David Crick, used X-ray diffraction to study the structure of the Signer DNA. The ‘A’ form could take two forms, what she called crystalline or A form and paracrystalline or B form. Franklin found she could convert A into B…
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Memorial and the Center for Civil Liberties have won a peace prize
The Centre for Civil Liberties in Ukraine and the Memorial for the Rights of Prisoners in Belarus were awarded this year’s Nobel Prize for human rights and civil liberties on Saturday. This comes a day after jailed Belarusian activist Vladimir Bialiatski was announced as one of the 2022 Nobel Prize recipients. Bialiatski, who was sentenced…