UCL celebrates two more Nobel Prize laureates

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.

Find out more 

• UCL alumnus and AI innovator awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry 
• UCL institute founder awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (UCL News)  
• Find out more about UCL's Nobel Prize winners throughout history 
• Demis Hassabis gives the 2023 UCL Prize Lecture at UCL; ‘Using AI to Accelerate Scientific Discovery’

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• Professor Geoffrey E. Hinton  Credit: Noah Berger, source Associated Press / Alamy