Claim · 2024-10-09 · announcement · Stated in source · Supported

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on 9 October 2024 that it had decided to award one half of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 to David Baker “for computational protein design”.

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Royal Swedish Academy of Sciencesannounced an award to ↓David Baker

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Date: 2024-10-09 · announcement Records dated 2024 →

Scope and limitsThe awarding body's own announcement of its decision; the citation is the Academy's wording. It is not a Selekoa assessment of the work, and it does not attribute the work to Baker alone.

The evidence 01

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Press release: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (on nobelprize.org) · 2024-10-09

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Source excerpt

“The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 with one half to David Baker University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA “for computational protein design”

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Authors: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (on nobelprize.org)
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 2f4c590c9ce9bc0d5b87c96edb465cfc77bb605a88bf781a6ae52c071516de6b). English HTML press release dated 9 October 2024, as served on 2026-10-30. Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated.
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Accessed: 2026-10-30
Language: English (en)
Attribution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (on nobelprize.org), “Press release: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024”, 2024-10-09.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, AI in biology (research/ai-in-biology). The quotation (37 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-30. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

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Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor. An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.

Relation. An awarding body announced its decision to award a named prize to a person, with the citation in its own words. It is the awarding body’s statement, not a Selekoa assessment of the work, and it does not attribute the work to the laureate alone.

Date. Date of the Academy's press release; the award ceremony is a separate, later event not recorded here.

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