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John Jumper

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A senior research scientist at DeepMind, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on AlphaFold.


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Summary

John Jumper, born in 1985 in Little Rock, Arkansas, is an American chemist and computer scientist renowned for his groundbreaking work on AlphaFold, an artificial intelligence model developed at Google DeepMind that accurately predicts protein structures. For this pivotal achievement, he and Demis Hassabis were jointly awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Jumper, who currently serves as a director at Google DeepMind, has announced plans to release 100 million protein structures, further democratizing access to this critical biological data. His contributions to science were recognized by Nature in 2021, when he was included in their "Nature's 10" list, and his work has also led to the creation of commercial entities like the drug discovery firm Isomorphic Labs.

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  • Born

    1985

  • Awards

    Marshall Scholarship (2007), Nature's 10 (2021), BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2022), Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2023), Canada Gairdner International Award, Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2024)

  • Full Name

    John Michael Jumper

  • Known For

    AlphaFold, Protein Structure Prediction

  • Alma Mater

    Vanderbilt University (BS), University of Cambridge (MPhil), University of Chicago (MS, PhD)

  • Occupation

    Chemist, Computer Scientist, Artificial Intelligence Researcher, Biophysicist

  • Nationality

    American

  • Current Role

    Director at Google DeepMind

  • Future Plans

    Release 100 million protein structures

  • Place of Birth

    Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.

Timeline
  • Born John Michael Jumper in Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, Web Search)

    1985

  • Awarded the Marshall Scholarship. (Source: Web Search)

    2007

  • Began his study of computational biology at the University of Chicago, applying machine learning to protein folding. (Source: Web Search)

    2011

  • Received a Master's degree (MS) in chemistry from the University of Chicago. (Source: Web Search)

    2012

  • Received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Chicago. (Source: Web Search)

    2017

  • Included in Nature's 10 list of people who significantly impacted science. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, Web Search)

    2021

  • Awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award. (Source: Web Search)

    2022

  • Awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. (Source: Web Search)

    2023

  • Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside Demis Hassabis for protein structure prediction with AlphaFold. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, Related Documents, Web Search)

    2024

John M. Jumper

John Michael Jumper (born 1985) is an American chemist and computer scientist. Jumper and Demis Hassabis were awarded with the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein structure prediction. 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.

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  • Dr John Jumper FRS - Fellow Detail Page | Royal Society

    John Jumper is an artificial intelligence researcher and biophysicist, whose work on AI-based protein structure prediction has enabled the routine prediction of protein structures to atomic accuracy. Dr Jumper led the development of the AlphaFold2 and AlphaFold3 systems at Google DeepMind, where he developed entirely new machine learning architectures to dramatically increase the ability of AI systems to learn from biological and chemical data. In particular, his work showed that it was [...] Dr Jumper was originally trained as a physicist and holds an MPhil in theoretical condensed matter physics from the University of Cambridge. Prior to Google DeepMind, he worked on molecular dynamics simulations of proteins, originally at D.E Shaw Research and later in his PhD at the University of Chicago. In his PhD, Dr Jumper developed principled machine learning methods to learn simulation parameters directly from the Protein Data Bank. [...] His work on protein structure prediction has won numerous awards, including the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the Canada Gairdner International Award, the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

  • John M. Jumper - Wikipedia

    John Michael Jumper (born 1985) is an American chemist and computer scientist. Jumper and Demis Hassabis were awarded with the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein structure prediction. 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. [...] | John Jumper | | | --- | --- | | Jumper giving his 2024 Nobel Prize lecture | | | Born | John Michael Jumper 1985 (age 39–40) Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S. | | Education | 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) | [...] American computational biologist (born 1985) For other people named John Jumper, see John Jumper (disambiguation) "John Jumper (disambiguation)").

  • John P. Jumper - Wikipedia

    John Phillip Jumper (born February 4, 1945) is a retired United States Air Force (USAF) general "General (United States)"), who served as 17th chief of staff of the United States Air Force from September 6, 2001 to September 2, 2005. He retired from the USAF on November 1, 2005. Jumper was succeeded as chief of staff by General T. Michael Moseley. [...] John Jumper was born on February 4, 1945 in Paris, Texas. Jumper has stated that his father general Jimmy Jefferson Jumper enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces in World War II "probably for a way to get out of Paris, Texas", became a pilot, and retired as a two star general. [...] | General "General (United States)") John P. Jumper | | | --- | --- | | General John P. Jumper | | | Born | (1945-02-04) February 4, 1945 (age 80) Paris, Texas, U.S. | | Allegiance | United States | | Branch | United States Air Force | | Years of service | 1966–2005 | | Rank | General "General (United States)") | | Unit | 459th Airlift Squadron |

  • John M. Jumper | Biography, Nobel Prize, DeepMind, AlphaFold ...

    John M. Jumper (born 1985, Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.) is an American computer scientist who was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work using artificial intelligence (AI) to find the three-dimensional structure of proteins. He shared half the prize with his colleague, English computer scientist Demis Hassabis, and the other half of the prize was awarded to American biochemistDavid Baker. Early life and career --------------------- [...] Jumper spent the next three years at D.E. Shaw Research, a computational laboratory in New York City, where he developed simulations to examine the dynamics of proteins and other molecules. Starting in 2011 Jumper shifted his study of computational biology to the University of Chicago, where he applied machine learning to explore the physics of protein folding. He graduated from the University of Chicago with a master’s degree (2012) and a Ph.D. (2017) in chemistry. He then joined Google’s [...] Table of Contents Introduction Early life and career Solving protein folding References & Edit HistoryQuick Facts & Related Topics Images Image 3: John M. Jumper Contents Ask the Chatbot a Question ScienceMathematics Image 4: John M. Jumper John M. JumperJohn M. Jumper was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in using AI to solve the long-standing problem of three-dimensional protein structures.(more) John M. Jumper ==============

  • Biography:John M. Jumper - HandWiki

    John Michael Jumper is an American senior research scientist at DeepMind Technologies.( Jumper and his colleagues created AlphaFold,( an artificial intelligence (AI) model to predict protein structures from their amino acid sequence with high accuracy.( Jumper has 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.( [...] | John Jumper | | --- | | Born | John Michael Jumper | | Alma mater | Vanderbilt University (BSc)( University of Cambridge (MPhil)( University of Chicago (PhD) | | Known for | AlphaFold | | Awards | Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2023) Nature's 10 (2021) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2022) | | Scientific career | | Fields | Artificial intelligence Machine learning | | Institutions | Google DeepMind | [...] 1. ↑ 1.01.1"John Jumper at DeepMind". 2. ↑ 2.02.1Template:Linkedin") 3. ↑ 3.03.13.2Jumper, John Michael (2017). _New methods using rigorous machine learning for coarse-grained protein folding and dynamics_. _chicago.edu_ (PhD thesis). University of Chicago. doi&action=edit&redlink=1 "Doi (identifier) (page does not exist)"):10.6082/M1BZ647N. OCLC&action=edit&redlink=1 "OCLC (identifier) (page does not exist)")1237239279. ProQuest")1883866286.

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    1/1/1820
  • Date Of Death
    1/1/1896
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