David Baker

American biochemist and computational biologist · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1962 · age 64

David Baker is an American biochemist and computational biologist who has pioneered methods to design proteins and predict their three-dimensional structures.

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2025Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of ScienceAward2024Nobel Prize in ChemistryAward2021Breakthrough Prize in Life SciencesAward2004Feynman Prize in NanotechnologyAward2001Overton PrizeAward1994Packard Fellowship for Science and EngineeringAward1962Born6 October 1962

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Spouse Hannele Ruohola-Baker

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Baker delivering a lecture during 2024 Nobel Week

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Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science2025

Nobel Prize in Chemistry2024

Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences2021

Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology2004

Overton Prize2001

Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering1994

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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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.

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