John Jumper
Architect of AlphaFold
Solving protein structure prediction, and releasing it
Rating
95Impact score
Domains
Structural biologyDeep learningOpen science
Scouting report
Led AlphaFold 2, which solved a fifty-year-old grand challenge in biology to experimental accuracy. DeepMind then released the code and predicted structures for essentially every known protein, free, which is the part biologists actually talk about. Shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Curator’s note
The strongest argument in the set that AI can just make a field better.
Sources
- 01John Jumper en.wikipedia.org
- 02Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold (2021) nature.com