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John Jumper

Director at Google DeepMind; 2024 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry at google-deepmind

<cite index="25-3,25-4">John Michael Jumper is an American chemist and computer scientist who was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein structure prediction.</cite> <cite index="25-5">As of 2025 Jumper serves as director at Google DeepMind.</cite> <cite index="25-6">Jumper and his colleagues created AlphaFold, an artificial intelligence model to predict protein structures from their amino acid sequence with high accuracy.</cite>