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John Hopfield

John Joseph Hopfield 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... Wikipedia

  • Born:  John Joseph Hopfield, July 15, 1933, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
  • Age:  92 years
  • Fields:  Physics, Molecular biology, Complex systems, Neuroscience, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
  • Institutions:  Bell Labs, Princeton University, University of California, Berkeley, California Institute of Technology
  • Education:  Swarthmore College (BA), Cornell University (PhD)
  • Thesis:  A Quantum-Mechanical Theory of the Contribution of Excitons to the Complex Dielectric Constant of Crystals (1958)
  • Doctoral students:  Steven Girvin, Gerald Mahan, Bertrand Halperin, David J. C. MacKay, José Onuchic, Terry Sejnowski, Erik Winfree, Li Zhaoping
  • Known for:  Hopfield network, Modern Hopfield network, Hopfield dielectric, Polariton, Kinetic proofreading
  • Notable awards:  Oliver Buckley Prize (1969), Dirac Medal of the ICTP (2001), Harold Pender Award (2002), Albert Einstein World Award of Science (2005), Benjamin Franklin Medal (2019), Boltzmann Medal (2022), Nobel Prize in Physics (2024), Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (2025)
  • Data Source:  DuckDuckGo
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