When was John M. Jumper born?

John M. Jumper was born on 1 January 1985 in Little Rock.

Where did John M. Jumper study?

John M. Jumper was educated at University of Chicago, University of Cambridge, Vanderbilt University.

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John M. Jumper

American chemist and AI expert

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John Michael Jumper (born 1 January 1985) is an American chemist and computer scientist. Jumper and Demis Hassabis were awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein structure prediction along with David Baker for computational protein design.

Quick facts

Born: 1 January 1985 wd
Place of birth: Little Rock wd
Citizenship: United States wd
Occupation: computational biologist, artificial intelligence researcher, chemist wd
Education: University of Chicago, University of Cambridge, Vanderbilt University wd
Social media: LinkedIn wd

Awards wd

Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2024)
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (2023)
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2023)
Canada Gairdner International Award (2023)
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2023)
Clarivate Citation Laureates (2024)
Wiley Prize (2022)
VinFuture Prize (2022)
Nature's 10 (2021)
Fellow of the Royal Society (2025)

About

Jumper served as a director at Google DeepMind for nearly nine years. Jumper and his colleagues created AlphaFold, an artificial intelligence (AI) model to predict protein structures from their amino acid sequence with high accuracy. The AlphaFold team had released 214 million protein structures as of January 2024.

The scientific journal Nature included Jumper as one of the ten "people who mattered" in science in their annual listing of Nature's 10 in 2021.

In June 2026, Jumper announced that he would leave the company to join Anthropic after a break.

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When was John M. Jumper born?: John M. Jumper was born on 1 January 1985 in Little Rock.
Where did John M. Jumper study?: John M. Jumper was educated at University of Chicago, University of Cambridge, Vanderbilt University.

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Last updated 31 October 2026 · facts checked 5 November 2026

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