John M. Jumper
American chemist and computer scientist (born 1985)
John M. Jumper
John Michael Jumper (born 1 January 1985) is an American chemist and computer scientist. Jumper and Demis Hassabis were awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein structure prediction along with David Baker for computational protein design. Jumper served as a director at Google DeepMind for nearly nine years. Jumper and his colleagues created AlphaFold, an artificial intelligence (AI) model to predict protein structures from their amino acid sequence with high accuracy. The AlphaFold team had released 214 million protein structures as of January 2024. The scientific journal Nature included Jumper as one of the ten "people who mattered" in science in their annual listing of Nature's 10 in 2021. In June 2026, Jumper announced that he would leave the company to join Anthropic after a break.
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