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20202020s
John M. Jumper
Led AlphaFold 2 and shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for solving protein structure prediction.
Organizations
DeepMindUniversity of Chicago
Major Achievements
- •Led the AlphaFold 2 team whose CASP14 results in 2020 ended a fifty-year grand challenge in biology.
- •Shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Demis Hassabis and David Baker.
- •Oversaw the release of predicted structures for nearly every catalogued protein.
- •Trained as a physical chemist before applying deep learning to molecular structure.
Key Papers
- Highly Accurate Protein Structure Prediction with AlphaFold
John Jumper · Nature · 2021