John M. jumper
nobel-prize winning scientist
Marshall Scholar, Class of 2007 (University of Cambridge)
"I’m a big believer in interdisciplinary science. You learn so much more by talking to a diverse group of experts to learn what they’re excited about and how they think about things.”
-John Jumper
Breakthrough Scientist
John Michael Jumper is a chemist and computer scientist awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein structure prediction. Jumper currently serves as a Distinguished Scientist at Google DeepMind. Jumper and his colleagues created AlphaFold, an artificial intelligence (AI) model that predicts protein structures from amino acid sequences with high accuracy. Jumper stated that the AlphaFold team plans to release 100 million protein structures. The scientific journal Nature included Jumper among the ten "people who mattered" in science. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2025.