Paper crown
- ID-nummer
- 2024.019.001
- Titel
- Paper crown
- Publik beskrivning
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This paper crown was a kind of challenge prize in John Jumper's research team, which explores the structure of protein molecules. The research team was called "the Origami team" at an early stage, since they saw links between how long protein molecules are folded and the art of folding paper into figures. Whenever someone in the group made progress, they got to wear the paper crown as a reward, and kept it until they passed it on to the next person who did something worth rewarding.
Jumper and his colleagues don't usually work with paper models but with computers and artificial intelligence. They developed AlphaFold2, an algorithm that can predict the three-dimensional structure of any imaginable protein.
John Jumper donated the paper crown to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2024. - Pristagare
- John Jumper
Part of Paper crown