It took the Swedish awards committee a long time to inform him that he had received the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
They finally called Sir Hassabis’s wife on Microsoft Teams, but she was busy and kept ignoring them.
He added that she finally chose to answer after the third or fourth call.
For their work in artificial intelligence and biology, Google DeepMind CEO Sir Hassabis, his colleague Dr. John Jumper, and US scientist Dr. David Baker have just been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
The two London-based winners were Sir Hassabis and Dr. Jumper, for their innovative work in protein structure prediction.
