The Nobel, awarded to David Baker of the University of Washington and Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper of Google DeepMind, is the second this week to involve artificial intelligence.

A Vanderbilt University graduate was among the three scientists who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this week. Why it matters: The alum, John M. Jumper, helped develop an AI model that solved a decades-long mystery.

The 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to a trio of scientists who used artificial intelligence to “crack the code” of almost all known proteins, the “chemical tools of life.”