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John Michael Jumper

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John Michael Jumper

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Also known as John Jumper, John M. Jumper

American chemist and AI expert

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John Michael Jumper is an American chemist born in 1985 in Little Rock. He holds citizenship in the United States and speaks English. Jumper was educated at Vanderbilt University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Cambridge. He is employed by Google DeepMind.

His notable work includes AlphaFold. Jumper 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. He is recognized in the Nobel Laureates and Nobel Chemistry collections.

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Origin
Sweden
Active from
1996
Active to
2001
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Discography

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5 total works indexed

  1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

    · 1996 · cited 204,531x

  2. Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2

    · 2014 · cited 88,512x

  3. Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles

    · 2005 · cited 48,837x

  4. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

    · 1976 · cited 44,827x

  5. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 43,586x

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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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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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