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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.
The 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to a trio of scientists who used artificial intelligence to “crack the code” of almost all known proteins, the “chemical tools of life.” ...
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.
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 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 ...
Researcher John Jumper, left, and Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind Technologies, the AI division behind Gemini, speak to Associated Press at the Google DeepMind offices in London, Wednesday, Oct. 9 ...
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 ...
Hinton and fellow AI pioneer John Hopfield, 91, won the physics prize. The awards continue with the literature prize Thursday, the Nobel Peace Prize Friday and the economics award on Oct. 14.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Little Rock native John Jumper was recently awarded the honor of receiving the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The prestigious award was presented by the Royal Swedish Academy ...