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Demis Hassabis
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Person

Demis Hassabis

b. 1976

British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)

Born
27 Jul 1976 · London

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 57 years
  1. 27 Jul 1976BornBorn in London
  2. 2014AwardMullard Award
  3. 2016AwardNature's 10
  4. 2017AwardFellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
  5. 2017AwardTime 100
  6. 2018AwardCommander of the Order of the British Empire
  7. 2018AwardFellow of the Royal Society
  8. 2018AwardHonorary degree
  9. 2020AwardDan David Prize
  10. 2022AwardBBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
  11. 2022AwardPrincess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research
  12. 2023AwardAlbert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
  13. 2023AwardCanada Gairdner International Award

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1976 – today).

  1. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  2. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  3. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  4. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  5. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  6. 1985Schengen Agreement
  7. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  8. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  9. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  10. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  11. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  12. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  13. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  14. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  15. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  16. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  17. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  18. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  19. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  20. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  21. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
  22. 20112011 Norway attacks
  23. 2011Libyan civil war
  24. 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war
  25. 20122012 Summer Olympics
  26. 20142014 FIFA World Cup
  27. 2014Russo-Ukrainian war
  28. 2015Paris Agreement
  29. 20182018 FIFA World Cup
  30. 2020COVID-19 pandemic
  31. 20212020 Summer Olympics
  32. 2022Russo-Ukrainian war
  33. 2023Gaza war
  34. 20242024 Summer Olympics
  35. 20262026 Iran war

Biography

Sir Demis Hassabis (born 27 July 1976) is a British artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and entrepreneur. He is the chairman and co-founder of Google DeepMind and the chief scientist of Alphabet, as well as the chief executive officer and co-founder of Isomorphic Labs. Hassabis is also a UK Government AI Adviser. In 2024, Hassabis and John M. Jumper were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their AI research contributions to protein structure prediction.

Hassabis is a Fellow of the Royal Society and has won awards for his research efforts, including the Breakthrough Prize, the Canada Gairdner International Award and the Lasker Award. He was appointed a CBE in 2017, and knighted in 2024 for his work on AI. He was also listed among the Time 100 most influential people in the world in 2017 and 2025, and was one of the "Architects of AI" collectively chosen as Time's 2025 Person of the Year.

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