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John Hopfield

1933 - Today

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John Joseph Hopfield (born July 15, 1933) is an American physicist and emeritus professor of Princeton University, most widely known for his study of associative neural networks in 1982. He is known for the development of the Hopfield network. Previous to its invention, research in artificial intelligence (AI) was in a decay period or AI winter, Hopfield's work revitalized large-scale interest in this field. In 2024 Hopfield, along with Geoffrey Hinton, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for "foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks." He has been awarded various major physics awards for his work in multidisciplinary fields including condensed matter physics, statistical physics and biophysics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Hopfield is the 122nd most popular biologist (up from 928th in 2019), the 1,061st most popular biography from United States (up from 9,052nd in 2019) and the 17th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Hopfield ranks 122 out of 1,097. Before him are Elias Magnus Fries, John B. Calhoun, Ferdinand Cohn, James Edward Smith, Sylvia Earle, and Carl Peter Thunberg. After him are Erasmus Darwin, Carl Nägeli, Hans Christian Gram, Robert Whittaker, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, and Hamilton O. Smith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, John Hopfield ranks 48. Before him are Costa-Gavras, Joan Collins, Ilia II of Georgia, Rik Van Looy, Bernardo Provenzano, and Samora Machel. After him are Gian Maria Volonté, Gene Wilder, Lee Radziwill, Charles K. Kao, Antonio Negri, and John Barry.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Hopfield ranks 1,061 out of 20,380. Before him are Chester Bennington (1976), Gertrude Ederle (1905), David Bohm (1992), Joe Morton (1947), Sylvia Earle (1935), and Jonathan Banks (1947). After him are Paul Tibbets (1915), H. L. Mencken (1880), Rick Rubin (1963), Stanley Tucci (1960), Drew Weissman (1959), and Ali MacGraw (1939).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, John Hopfield ranks 17. Before him are Clair Cameron Patterson (1922), Alfred Hershey (1908), Stanley B. Prusiner (1942), Hermann Joseph Muller (1890), John B. Calhoun (1917), and Sylvia Earle (1935). After him are Robert Whittaker (1920), Hamilton O. Smith (1931), Sam Harris (1967), John Franklin Enders (1897), Lynn Margulis (1938), and Gerald Edelman (1929).

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