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John Joseph Hopfield | |
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Born | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | July 15, 1933
Alma mater | Swarthmore College Cornell University |
Known for | Hopfield network Polariton Kinetic proofreading |
Awards | Dirac Medal of the ICTP (2001) Harold Pender Award (2002) Oliver Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society Albert Einstein World Award of Science (2005) Benjamin Franklin Medal (2019) Boltzmann Medal (2022) |
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) is an American scientist most widely known for his study of associative neural network in 1982. The model is now more commonly known as the Hopfield network, although the model was conceptualized prior to his work.