John Hopfield

John Joseph Hopfield (born July 15, 1933) 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. 

References

Other websites
 Homepage at Princeton 
 User:John J. Hopfield – Scholarpedia
2014 review by Hopfield tracing the trajectory of solid state physics through his experiences

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