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John Jumper
DeepMind; AlphaFold lead; Nobel Prize 2024
Google DeepMind director who led the AlphaFold project that solved the protein folding problem. Awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside Demis Hassabis and David Baker.
current Director, Senior Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
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Alignment firstmixed
Solve technical alignment before capability thresholds closePublic on the application side: argues AI is most powerful when oriented at concrete scientific problems and that demonstrating value through real science is more credible than abstract claims.
“We have created the first computational tool that can routinely predict protein structures with accuracy competitive with experimental methods.”
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.