Chemist no. 227 of 350 · Theoretical/Quantum

John Jumper

1985-United StatesNobel Chemistry 2024

AlphaFold protein structure prediction

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The discovery, explained

AlphaFold2: How John Jumper Led the Neural Network That Predicts Protein Structures

How John Jumper led the design of AlphaFold2, the attention-based neural network that predicts protein structures at near-experimental accuracy. Chemistry for students.

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Biography

John Jumper: The Young Scientist Who Led AlphaFold2 to a Nobel Prize

Life of John Jumper, American scientist at DeepMind and 2024 Chemistry Nobel laureate: Arkansas childhood, Vanderbilt, Cambridge, Chicago PhD and AlphaFold.

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Academic lineage

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