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The artificial intelligence scientists from Google won the chemistry prize
The 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to American researcher James Baker for developing an AI system called AlphaFold2 that predicts protein structure. The award-winning algorithm can predict protein structure from a dataset of over 1 million proteins and enables scientists to study them more intimately, the Nobel committee said. Baker has been working…
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The chemistry won the prize for tiny quantum dot particles
Three chemists who predicted and were first to make quantum dots, nanoscale crystals that interact with light in unusual ways, have been awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the award to the trio of Nikolay Brus from Denmark, Sergey Ekimov from Belarus and Konstantin Novoselov from Russia.