John M. Jumper

John Michael Jumper (born 1985) is an American chemist and computer scientist. He currently 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. Jumper stated that the AlphaFold team plans to release 100 million protein structures.

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. Jumper and Demis Hassabis were awarded with the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein structure prediction. Provided by Wikipedia