John Hopfield
John Hopfield | |
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 Hopfield in 2016 | |
| Born | John Joseph Hopfield July 15, 1933 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Swarthmore College (AB) Cornell University (PhD) |
| Known for | Hopfield network Modern Hopfield network Hopfield dielectric Polariton Kinetic proofreading |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics, Molecular biology, Neuroscience |
| Institutions | Bell Labs Princeton University University of California, Berkeley California Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | A quantum-mechanical theory of the contribution of excitons to the complex dielectric constant of crystals (1958) |
| Doctoral advisor | Albert Overhauser |
| Doctoral students | David Beratan Steven Girvin Bertrand Halperin David J. C. MacKay Gerald Mahan José Onuchic Terry Sejnowski Erik Winfree Li Zhaoping |
John Joseph Hopfield (born July 15, 1933)[1] is an American physicist and molecular biologist. He is a professor of Princeton University. He is known for his study of neural networks in 1982. He is known for the creation of the Hopfield network.
In 2024, along with Geoffrey Hinton, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on artificial neural networks for machine learning.[2]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Hopfield, John J." history.aip.org. Retrieved 2024-10-08.
- ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2024-10-08.
Other websites
[change | change source]- Homepage at Princeton Archived January 2, 2018, at the Wayback Machine
- User:John J. Hopfield – Scholarpedia
- 2014 review by Hopfield tracing the trajectory of solid state physics through his experiences
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