David Baker is an American biochemist and computational biologist who has pioneered methods to design proteins and predict their three-dimensional structures. He is the Henrietta and Aubrey Davis Endowed Professor in Biochemistry, an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and an adjunct professor of genome sciences, bioengineering, chemical engineering, computer science, and physics at the University of Washington. He was awarded the shared 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on computational protein design. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024, announced October 9, 2024. David Baker (1/2), “for computational protein design”. Demis Hassabis (1/4), “for protein structure prediction”. John Jumper (1/4), “for protein structure prediction”. David Baker: born 1962, Seattle, WA, USA. Demis Hassabis: born 1976, London, United Kingdom. John Jumper: born 1985, Little Rock, AR, USA. Wiki link Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).