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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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Hopfield has received more than 566,814 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). John Hopfield is the 928th most popular biologist (down from 867th in 2019), the 9,053rd most popular biography from United States (up from 9,195th in 2019) and the 134th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Hopfield ranks 928 out of 1,097. Before him are Osamu Hayaishi, Victor Motschulsky, Michael Sars, William Henry Harvey, Shi Zhengli, and Walter Migula. After him are Gerrit Smith Miller, Tokiharu Abe, Richard Thomas Lowe, Johann Wilhelm Meigen, Lucy Shapiro, and Robert Wight.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, John Hopfield ranks 442. Before him are Leonid Bartenyev, Vincenzo Consolo, Caroll Spinney, Irmtraud Morgner, Yuri Chesnokov, and Stefano Rodotà. After him are Seydou Diarra, Peter Arundell, Valentina Rastvorova, Gurdial Singh, James Goldsmith, and Josef Němec.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Hopfield ranks 9,053 out of 20,380. Before him are Nick Offerman (1970), Haley Bennett (1988), Veronica Hamel (1943), Norman Foster (1903), Erin Heatherton (1989), and Wayne Static (1965). After him are Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (1959), John Patitucci (1959), Virginia Pearson (1886), Gerrit Smith Miller (1869), T. R. Knight (1973), and Sarah Orne Jewett (1849).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, John Hopfield ranks 134. Before him are Thomas Say (1787), Sereno Watson (1826), Ruth Patrick (1907), G. Ledyard Stebbins (1906), Wilfred Hudson Osgood (1875), and Osamu Hayaishi (1920). After him are Gerrit Smith Miller (1869), Lucy Shapiro (1940), William Beebe (1877), Charles Sibley (1917), Janet Rowley (1925), and Alexander Wetmore (1886).

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