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John Jumper
John Jumper's file: AlphaFold, protein structure prediction, Google DeepMind, and the scientist whose AI work shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Jumper helped turn DeepMind's protein-folding project from a promising competition entry into AlphaFold2, expanded it into a database covering almost every known protein, won a Nobel Prize, and left DeepMind for Anthropic in 2026.
HOW THE HELL DID JOHN JUMPER GET HERE?
Dec 2, 2018
ALPHAFOLD WINS ITS FIRST PROTEIN-FOLDING TEST
DeepMind's first AlphaFold system placed first at CASP13, establishing the project as a serious new approach to protein structure prediction.
RECEIPTS: Google DeepMindfirst-party
Nov 30, 2020
ALPHAFOLD2 BREAKS THE OLD PROTEIN-FOLDING GAME
At CASP14, Jumper and the AlphaFold team produced predictions accurate enough for organizers to recognize AlphaFold2 as a solution to the protein-structure prediction problem.
RECEIPTS: Google DeepMindfirst-partyNobel Prizereported
Jul 15, 2021
THE MODEL LEAVES THE LAB
The AlphaFold2 methods were published in Nature and DeepMind released code, followed days later by the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database.
RECEIPTS: Google DeepMindfirst-party
Jul 28, 2022
THE DATABASE EXPANDS TO ALMOST EVERY KNOWN PROTEIN
DeepMind expanded AlphaFold predictions to more than 200 million protein structures, covering nearly all catalogued proteins known to science.
RECEIPTS: Google DeepMindfirst-party
Oct 9, 2024
THE PROTEIN MACHINE WINS HIM A NOBEL
Jumper and Demis Hassabis shared half of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein structure prediction through AlphaFold.
RECEIPTS: Nobel PrizereportedGoogle DeepMindfirst-party
Jun 19, 2026
THE NOBEL WINNER LEAVES DEEPMIND FOR ANTHROPIC
Jumper announced he would leave Google DeepMind and join Anthropic, moving one of AI-for-science's biggest names into the frontier-model talent war.
RECEIPTS: Reutersreported