Demis Hassabis(1976)
ChemistryDemis Hassabis is a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2024) from United Kingdom. They have received 12 major awards in total. Their primary field is Chemistry. They were educated at University of Cambridge and University College London. They have been affiliated with University College London.
United KingdomGoogle DeepMind (United Kingdom)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2024)Copley Medal (2024)Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2023)Lasker Basic Medical Research (2023)King Faisal Prize (2023)Gairdner International Award (2022)Royal Medal (2022)Princess of Asturias Award (2022)Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (2021)IEEE Neural Network Pioneer Award (2020)Fellow of the Royal Society (2018)BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge (Basic Sciences) (2016)
12
Major Awards
173
Publications
179,810
Citations
89
h-index
126
i10-index
1039.4
Avg Citations/Paper
Awards & Recognition
Most Cited Works
Top publications by citation count#3
Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities
arXiv.org(2025)
2,468
citations
#4
AlphaGenome: advancing regulatory variant effect prediction with a unified DNA sequence model
bioRxiv(2025)
91
citations
#6
Large Language Models as a Normalizer for Transliteration and Dialectal Translation
COLING Workshops(2025)
9
citations
#9
Bridging the human–AI knowledge gap through concept discovery and transfer in AlphaZero
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America(2025)
19
citations
Recent Publications
View all worksTowards Autonomous Mathematics Research
arXiv.org2026
9citations
41citations
6citations
Large Language Models as a Normalizer for Transliteration and Dialectal Translation
COLING Workshops2025
9citations
68citations
Gemma 3 Technical Report
arXiv.org2025
1,185citations
Bridging the human–AI knowledge gap through concept discovery and transfer in AlphaZero
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025
19citations
Open Access2citations
External Profiles
Career Path
Award progression over time
Apex Elite Prestigious
Co-winners
Shared the same award in the same year
JM
John Michael Jumper
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2024)
JM
John M. Jumper
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2024)
DB
David Baker
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2024)
CP
Clifford P. Brangwynne
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2023)
EM
Emmanuel Mignot
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2023)
Masashi Yanagisawa
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2023)
Anthony A. Hyman
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2023)
Geoffrey E. Hinton
King Faisal Prize (2023)
JD
John Dick
Gairdner International Award (2022)
SO
Stuart Orkin
Gairdner International Award (2022)
Yoshua Bengio
Princess of Asturias Award (2022)
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Yann LeCun
Princess of Asturias Award (2022)
Education
University of Cambridge(Doctor of Philosophy)
University College London
Christ's College, Finchley
Doctoral Advisor
Eleanor A. Maguire
Career Timeline
University College London?–present
Google DeepMind?–present
Top Publications
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
Nature202139,656 citations
Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3
Nature202411,446 citations
Protein complex prediction with AlphaFold-Multimer
20213,064 citations
Highly accurate protein structure prediction for the human proteome
Nature20212,847 citations
Accurate proteome-wide missense variant effect prediction with AlphaMissense
Science20231,765 citations
Related Laureates
Other winners of the same award(s)
Emmanuelle Charpentier
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2020)
Jennifer A. Doudna
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2020)
Katalin Karikó
Gruber Prize in Neuroscience (2024)
Drew Weissman
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2023)
Frederick Sanger
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1980)
Francis Crick
Copley Medal (1975)
Shankar Balasubramanian
Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (2023)
David Klenerman
Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (2023)
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