For his father, the Polish-American spectroscopist, see John J. Hopfield (spectroscopist).
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John Joseph Hopfield
Born
(1933-07-15) July 15, 1933 (age 90)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality
American
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 invention of an associative neural network in 1982. It is now more commonly known as the Hopfield network.
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'all-or-nothing' function. Their work has, in turn, built upon that of JohnHopfield, who was a key figure investigating the mathematical characteristics...
Princeton University with John Archibald Wheeler, and a PhD in physics from Princeton University in 1978 with JohnHopfield. While in Princeton for his...
joined with JohnHopfield, who was studying the theoretical foundations of neural computation, to expand his study. Mead and Hopfield's first joint course...
1984 and 1988. In 1982, physicist JohnHopfield was able to prove that a form of neural network (now called a "Hopfield net") could learn and process information...
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suggested by Solomon Isaakovich Pekar, but the term polariton, proposed by JohnHopfield, was adopted. Coupled states of electromagnetic waves and phonons in...
resulted in the award of the 2006 Nobel Prize, shared by George Smoot and John Mather). Alvarez proposed muon tomography in 1965 to search the Egyptian...
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network approach came to an end in the middle 1980s, when the work of JohnHopfield, David Rumelhart and others revived large scale interest. Rosenblatt...
earned his PhD in physics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with John Van Vleck in 1934. He married Charlotte Leof (26 Jul 1911 – 1967), the daughter...
made this architecture adaptive. His learning RNN was popularised by JohnHopfield in 1982. Charles Tappert writes that Frank Rosenblatt developed and...
civic work. He served as science advisor to Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson. He was president of the American Physical...
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error correction in biochemical reactions, proposed independently by JohnHopfield (1974) and Jacques Ninio (1975). Kinetic proofreading allows enzymes...
activation (often called the Additive and Shunting models, or the Hopfield model after JohnHopfield's 1984 application of the Additive model equation); (2) medium-term...
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