John Hopfield - Nobel Prize in Physics — 2024
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John Hopfield

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 2024
for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks
Together with: Geoffrey Hinton
Citizenship
United StatesUnited States
Languages
English
date of birth
7/15/1933
place of birth
Chicago
Age
93 years
occupation
  • biophysicist
  • molecular biologist
  • artificial intelligence researcher
  • university teacher
  • physicist
  • psychologist
  • neuroscientist
  • computer scientist
field of work
  • artificial intelligence
  • artificial neural network
  • neuroscience
  • machine learning
  • biology
  • applied psychology
educated at
  • Swarthmore College
    • academic degree: Bachelor of Arts
    • academic major: physics
    • end time: 1954
  • Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal
    • academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
    • academic major: physics
    • end time: 1958
employer
  • California Institute of Technology
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • Princeton University
  • Bell Labs
member of
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Philosophical Society
doctoral student
  • Oliver B. Downs
  • Gayle Marie Wittenberg
  • Thomas Mark Annau
  • Ronald Gary Benson
  • Brooke Paul Anderson
  • Terrence J. Sejnowski
  • Sam T. Roweis
    • end time: 1999
  • John C. Platt
  • Steven Girvin
  • David J. C. MacKay
  • Carlos Brody
  • Erik Winfree
  • Francis Allotey
  • José Onuchic
    • end time: 1987
  • Bertrand Halperin
  • Maneesh Sahani
    • end time: 1999
  • Eric Mjolsness
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