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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.
John Jumper, who received his master's degree in 2012 and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2017, shared the prize with Dennis Hassabis — who works with Jumper at Google DeepMind, a ...
Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google's DeepMind, and John Jumper, the project's American director, shared the prize for their work on AlphaFold2, an AI model that can predict protein structures. The ...
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 ...
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 ...
Linke remarked that scientists had long aspired to predict the three-dimensional structures of proteins. "Four years ago in 2020, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper managed to crack the code.
John Jumper, who received his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 2017, was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
Linke said scientists had long dreamt of predicting the three-dimensional structure of proteins. “Four years ago in 2020, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper managed to crack the code.
In May 2024, Jumper’s team unveiled AlphaFold 3, which in addition to proteins, can predict other molecules like DNA and RNA. Unlike its predecessor, AlphaFold 3 was not made open source.
Baker said Hassabis and Jumper’s artificial intelligence work gave his team a huge boost. “The breakthroughs made by Demis and John on protein structure prediction really highlighted to us the ...
The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to David Baker, John Jumper and Demis Hassabis for their work to crack the code of the building blocks of life: proteins. The technology has the potential ...
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.