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John Hopfield
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American scientist (born 1933)
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John Joseph Hopfield is an American physicist, molecular biologist, biophysicist, and university teacher born in Chicago in 1933. He has worked at Princeton University, the University of California, Berkeley, the California Institute of Technology, and Bell Labs. Hopfield was educated at Swarthmore College under doctoral advisor Albert Overhauser. His professional interests encompass biology, neuroscience, artificial neural networks, and applied psychology.
He is recognized as a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. His academic contributions include the work *Physics view of brain computation*. Hopfield has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the MacArthur Fellows Program award, the Albert Einstein World Award of Science, and the Harold Pender Award. He is included in the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Physics collection, the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, and the Macarthur Fellows collection.
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- Physics view of brain computation
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physics2024
“for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”
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- human
- Given name
- Joseph
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Chicago
- Occupation
- psychologist
- Educated at
- Swarthmore College
- Employer
- Bell Labs
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- Albert Overhauser
- Field of work
- machine learning
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- John J. Hopfield, 2024 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics 1 (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1933-07-15
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- American Philosophical Society
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Encyclopedic overview
John Joseph Hopfield (born July 15, 1933) is an American physicist and emeritus professor of Princeton University, most widely known for his study of associative neural networks in 1982. He is known for the development of the Hopfield network. Before its invention, research in artificial intelligence (AI) was in a decay period or AI winter, Hopfield's work revitalized large-scale interest in this field.
In 2024 Hopfield, along with Geoffrey Hinton, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for "foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks." He has been awarded various major physics awards for his work in multidisciplinary fields including condensed matter physics, statistical physics and biophysics.
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