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John Michael Jumper
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American chemist and AI expert
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John Michael Jumper is an American chemist born in 1985 in Little Rock. He is employed by Google DeepMind and speaks English. His notable work includes AlphaFold. He has received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, and the Canada Gairdner International Award.
Jumper was educated at the University of Chicago, the University of Cambridge, and Vanderbilt University. He is recognized in the Nobel Laureates collection and the Nobel Chemistry collection.
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Key facts
- Born
- John Michael Jumper , 1985 (age 40 – 41), Little Rock, Arkansas , U.S.
- Alma mater
- Vanderbilt University ( BS ) University of Cambridge ( MPhil ) University of Chicago ( MS , PhD)
- 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)
- 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
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry2024
“for protein structure prediction”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Michael
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Little Rock
- Educated at
- Vanderbilt University
- Employer
- Google DeepMind
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- AlphaFold
- Image
- John Jumper, 2024 Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry 7 (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1985-00-00
- name in native language
- John Michael Jumper
- Commons category
- John M. Jumper
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
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.
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