John Jumper

Senior Research Scientist, Google DeepMind

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Born: 1985, Little Rock

Education: University of Chicago, University of Cambridge, Vanderbilt University

Last updated Nov 2, 2026

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AI closes in on biology's last structural puzzles

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As of May 2026: 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry; leads AlphaFold development

Determining the three-dimensional shape of a protein used to take a graduate student an entire career. Google DeepMind released AlphaFold 4 in March 2026, extending progress from the original AlphaFold's 2018 win, with the system predicting multi-protein structures in minutes instead of hours or days.

Updated May 30