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David Baker

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David Baker (born October 6, 1962) 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. Baker is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and the director of the University of Washington's Institute for Protein Design. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia. David Baker is the 479th most popular chemist, the 6,158th most popular biography from United States and the 87th most popular American Chemist.

David Baker is an American biochemist and computational biologist known for his pioneering work in protein design and the development of the Rosetta software suite for predicting protein structures and interactions. His research has significant implications for drug design and synthetic biology.

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Among chemists, David Baker ranks 479 out of 602. Before him are Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen, Hieronymous Theodor Richter, Hugo Erdmann, K. C. Nicolaou, John Mayow, and Carl Theodore Liebermann. After him are Yellapragada Subbarow, Phoebus Levene, Masatoshi Shima, Christopher Kelk Ingold, Ivan Horbachevsky, and Archibald Scott Couper.

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Among people born in United States, David Baker ranks 6,158 out of 20,380. Before him are Jerry Allison (1939), Edna Ferber (1885), Robert Urich (1946), Ralph Nelson (1916), George Constantine (1918), and Jay O'Brien (1883). After him are David Paich (1954), Felicia Farr (1932), Afeni Shakur (1947), Lauren Cohan (1982), Will Keith Kellogg (1860), and Howard Valentine (1881).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, David Baker ranks 87. Before him are George Church (1954), Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1847), James Crafts (1839), John Tukey (1915), Myrtle Bachelder (1908), and Donella Meadows (1941). After him are Allen J. Bard (1933), Karen Wetterhahn (1948), Helen Murray Free (1923), Bruce Ames (1928), Michael Behe (1952), and Darleane C. Hoffman (1926).

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