David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their work on proteins.
Demis Hassabis co-founded the artificial intelligence research company that became Google DeepMind.
The announcement was made by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences at a press conference in Stockholm, Sweden.
The winners share a prize fund worth 11m Swedish kronor (£810,000).
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