John M. Jumper, a 2007 Vanderbilt University graduate, won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for a breakthrough artificial intelligence model that shows how proteins are built.

When the phone rang the morning of Oct. 9, John Jumper was wide awake. He knew he had a chance of winning the Nobel Prize in chemistry that day — around 10%, by his estimate — but he planned ...

Jumper, who joined DeepMind in 2017, is the youngest Nobel laureate in Chemistry in over 70 years. He chatted with Forbes about winning the award, the AI landscape, and building AlphaFold.

The prize was awarded to David Baker, a biochemist at the University of Washington in Seattle, and to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, computer scientists at Google DeepMind, a British-American ...

John Jumper, a graduate of Pulaski Academy's Class of 2003, was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis and John Jumper pose for a photograph after the announcement that they received the 2024 Nobel Prize for chemistry on Oct. 9, 2024. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images ...

Jumper, who is a senior staff research scientist for London-based DeepMind, graduated from Vanderbilt in 2007. He is the second university graduate to win a Nobel Prize, joining 1971 graduate ...