Celebrating Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation's Nobel Prize Winner David Baker

Beckman Foundation Young Investigator David Baker Wins 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Congratulations to 1995 BYI David Baker, PhD, University of Washington Medicine Institute for Protein Design, and recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize for his work predicting protein structures. 

He shares the prize this year with two Google DeepMind researchers who developed AlphaFold2.

Dr. Baker joins fellow former Beckman Young Investigator Chemistry Nobel Laureates Dr. Jennifer Doudna, 1996 BYI, and Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi, 1998 BYI.

Each Nobel Laureate receives a green gold medal plated with 24 karat gold, a diploma, and a monetary award. As of 2023, the Nobel Prize monetary award is 11,000,000 kr, amounting to approximately US $1,035,000.

Congratulations, David!

About the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation

Located in Irvine, California, the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation supports researchers and nonprofit research institutions in making the next generation of breakthroughs in chemistry and the life sciences. Founded in 1977 by 20th century scientific instrumentation pioneer Dr. Arnold O. Beckman, the Foundation supports United States institutions and young scientists whose creative, high-risk, and interdisciplinary research will lead to innovations and new tools and methods for scientific discovery. For more information, visit beckman-foundation.org and subscribe to our newsletter here.

SOURCE: Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation