UCL celebrates two more Nobel Prize laureates
9 October 2024
Congratulations to AI pioneers Sir Demis Hassabis CBE and Professor Geoffrey Hinton, who have both won Nobel Prizes this week, taking the total of Nobel laureates from the UCL community to 32.
Professor Geoffrey E. Hinton, who founded the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at UCL, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday (8 October), alongside Professor John J Hopfield, “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”. He is UCL's 31st Nobel laureate. Read the full story on UCL News.
Sir Demis Hassabis, who completed his PhD in the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology before working as a postdoc at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at UCL, is UCL’s 32nd Nobel laureate. He is the co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, one of the world’s leading Artificial Intelligence research groups. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday (9 October), along with John Jumper and Professor David Baker, for their work on computational protein design and protein structure prediction. Read the full story on UCL News.
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Sir Demis Hassabis (courtesy of Google DeepMind).
Professor Geoffrey E. Hinton Credit: Noah Berger, source Associated Press / Alamy