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John Jumper
Researcher
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024
Led AlphaFold at DeepMind and shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for it. Left for Anthropic in June 2026 after DeepMind moved him onto a coding-model team and dispersed the AlphaFold group.
Known for AlphaFold 2
Works in
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Jun 2026 – nowAnthropic, AI for scienceSources DeepMind dismantles its AlphaFold team as key authors leave for Anthropic The Decoder 2026-06-20 · DeepMind won a Nobel for AlphaFold. Then it broke up the team. The Next Web 2026-06-22
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Oct 2017 – Jun 2026Google DeepMind, VP and engineering fellow; AlphaFold leadSources DeepMind dismantles its AlphaFold team as key authors leave for Anthropic The Decoder 2026-06-20