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John Joseph Hopfield
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| Born |
July 15, 1933 (age 91)
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| 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)
Nobel Prize in Physics(2024) |
| 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 |
