Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper were part of a Google DeepMind team whose A.I. technology predicts the shape of proteins. David Baker designed “a new protein that was unlike any other,” the committee said.

David Baker, as well as Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, share the prize for their work on understanding the structure of proteins.

DeepMind’s AI AlphaFold allowed near-instantaneous predictions of that shape from their 2D sequences, improving drug design and basic science, while Baker in 2003 became the first person to design a wholly new protein by chaining amino acids together using a computer program.