Nobel Prize in Chemistry Is Awarded to Scientists Who Created New Molecular ‘Rooms’

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for developing metal-organic frameworks.

Who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2024?

The prize went to Demis Hassabis, John Jumper and David Baker for work that showed the potential of artificial intelligence and other technology to predict the shape of proteins and to invent new ones.

Who else has won a Nobel Prize this year?

• Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi received the physiology or medicine prize on Monday for their discoveries of peripheral immune tolerance — the system that explains how the immune system prevents rogue cells from attacking tissues and organs.

• John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis were awarded the physics prize on Tuesday for showing that two properties of quantum mechanics, the physical laws that rule the subatomic realm, could be observed in a system large enough to see with the naked eye.

When will the other Nobel Prizes be announced?

The prize for chemistry was the third of six Nobel Prizes awarded this year. Each award recognizes groundbreaking contributions by an individual or organization in a specific field.

• The Nobel Prize in Literature will be awarded on Thursday by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. Last year, Han Kang, known best for her novel “The Vegetarian,” became the first writer from South Korea to receive the award.

• The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded on Friday by the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo. Last year, the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo, a grass-roots movement of atomic bomb survivors, received the award “for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons.”

• Next week, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences will be awarded on Monday by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Last year, Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson were honored for research into how institutions shape which countries become wealthy and prosperous — and how those structures came to exist in the first place.

All of the prize announcements are streamed live by the Nobel Prize organization.