John Hopfield

John Joseph Hopfield
Born (1933-07-15) July 15, 1933 (age 90)
Alma materSwarthmore College
Cornell University
Known forHopfield network
Polariton
Kinetic proofreading
AwardsDirac 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
FieldsPhysics, Molecular biology, Neuroscience
InstitutionsBell 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 advisorAlbert Overhauser
Doctoral studentsDavid 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.


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