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John Hopfield

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Professor Emeritus at Princeton University

🇺🇸 American

Hopfield introduced the Hopfield network in 1982, showing how a system of simple units could store and reconstruct patterns as a form of memory. The idea became foundational to neural computation, earning him a share of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Professor Emeritus
Born1933
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Last editorial review: August 9, 2026

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