John M. Jumper
John Jumper | |
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Jumper giving his 2024 Nobel Prize lecture | |
| Born | John Michael Jumper 1985 (age 40–41) Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S. |
| Alma mater | |
| Known for | AlphaFold |
| Awards | Marshall Scholarship (2007) Nature's 10 (2021) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2022) Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2023) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2024) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Artificial intelligence Machine learning |
| Institutions | Google DeepMind |
| Thesis | New Methods Using Rigorous Machine Learning for Coarse-Grained Protein Folding and Dynamics (2017) |
| Doctoral advisor | Tobin R. Sosnick Karl Freed |
John Michael Jumper (born 1985) is an American chemist and computer scientist. Jumper and Demis Hassabis were awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein structure prediction.
As of 2025 Jumper serves as director at Google DeepMind. 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.