John Jumper / Google DeepMind — AI Researcher

**John Jumper** is a Director at **Google DeepMind** and the co-recipient of the **2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry** (shared with Demis Hassabis and David Baker) for the development of **AlphaFold 2** — the AI system that solved the 50-year-old grand challenge of predicting protein 3D structures from amino acid sequences. This is one of the most important scientific achievements of the 21st century, and it was accomplished not by traditional biochemistry but by deep learning.