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John Hopfield

John Joseph Hopfield

American scientist (born 1933).

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Sex or Gender

Male

Occupation

Physicist
Biologist
Molecular Biologist
University Teacher
Artificial Intelligence Researcher
Biophysicist
Neuroscientist
Computer Scientist
Psychologist

Date of Birth

7/15/1933

Country of Citizenship

United States

Instance Of

Human

Place of Birth

Chicago

Award Received

15 items
Guggenheim Fellowship
 (1968)
Point in Time
: 1968
MacArthur Fellows Program
Albert Einstein World Award of Science
Harold Pender Award
 (2002)
Point in Time
: 2002
IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award
 (2009)
Point in Time
: 2009
Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize
 (1969)
Point in Time
: 1969
Swartz Prize
 (2012)
Point in Time
: 2012
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Max Delbrück Prize in Biological Physics
 (1985)
Point in Time
: 1985
ICTP Dirac Medal
 (2001)
Point in Time
: 2001
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Benjamin Franklin Medal
 (2019)
Point in Time
: 2019
IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award
Boltzmann Medal
 (2022)
Award Rationale
: For extending the boundaries of statistical physics to encompass the phenomena of life, from kinetic proofreading in the transmission of information at the molecular level to the dynamics of neural networks creating a new language for thinking about computation in the brain.
Point in Time
: 2022
Nobel Prize in Physics
 (10/8/2024)
Award Rationale
: for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks
Together With
:
Geoffrey Hinton
Point in Time
: 10/8/2024

Employer

Princeton University
University of California, Berkeley
California Institute of Technology
Bell Labs

Given Name

John
Series Ordinal
:1
Joseph
Series Ordinal
:2

Educated At

Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal
 ( - 1958)
Academic Degree
:
Doctor of Philosophy
Academic Major
:
Physics
End Time
: 1958
Swarthmore College
 ( - 1954)
Academic Degree
:
Bachelor of Arts
Academic Major
:
Physics
End Time
: 1954

Member Of

National Academy of Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Philosophical Society

Doctoral Advisor

Albert Overhauser

Field of Work

Biology
Neuroscience
Artificial Neural Network
Applied Psychology
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning

Different From

John J. Hopfield

Languages Spoken, Written or Signed

English

Name in Native Language

John Joseph Hopfield

Family Name

Hopfield

Mother

Helen S. Hopfield

Father

John J. Hopfield

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Academic Thesis

A Quantum-Mechanical Theory of the Contribution of Excitons to the Complex Dielectric Constant of Crystals

Described by Source

Profile of John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton: 2024 Nobel Laureates in Physics

Spouse

Cornelia Fuller
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