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David Baker was born on October 6, 1962 in Seattle, Washington, United States. David Baker is listed as a bioinformatician, biochemist and university teacher. That works out to 64 years old in 2026. Education on record includes University of California, Berkeley. Listed accolades include Overton Prize (2001), Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (2004) and 3 more.
My Take
I'll be honest — before the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, most people outside of biochemistry circles had never heard of David Baker, and that's kind of wild given what he's pulled off. This guy, working out of the University of Washington, essentially taught computers to design proteins from scratch — molecules that don't exist in nature but fold exactly the way he predicts. Rosetta, the software suite his lab built, became the gold standard for protein structure prediction and design, years before the AI wave made it a hot topic. The Breakthrough Prize, the Feynman Prize, and eventually the Nobel all followed, but he was doing the hard, unglamorous computational grind long before the recognition caught up. For someone reshaping what's possible in medicine, materials science, and synthetic biology, Baker remains remarkably understated — which, honestly, makes him more impressive.
This take was written by generative AI, one per person, from publicly reported facts (editorial policy). It is a reading of the record, not reporting.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- David Baker
- Name (Japanese)
- デイヴィッド・ベイカー
- Reading
- でいゔぃっど・べいかー
- Born
- October 6, 1962 (age 64)
- Origin
- Seattle, Washington, United States
- Occupation
- bioinformatician / biochemist / university teacher / computational biologist / biochemistry teacher
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Libra / Tiger
2. Background
- University
- University of California, Berkeley
Awards & achievements
- 2001 Overton Prize
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2004 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology
- 1994 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering
- 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
3. Links
- Official sitehttps://sites.uw.edu/biochemistry/faculty/david-baker/
- Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Baker%20(biochemist)
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%20(%E7%94%9F%E5%8C%96%E5%AD%A6%E8%80%85)
- Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3814528
4. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.
Frequently asked questions
When was David Baker born?
David Baker was born on October 6, 1962 and is 64 years old.
Where is David Baker from?
David Baker is from Seattle, Washington, United States.
What does David Baker do?
David Baker works as bioinformatician, biochemist, university teacher, computational biologist, biochemistry teacher.
Where did David Baker study?
David Baker attended University of California, Berkeley.
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