John Hopfield
| John Joseph Hopfield | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 15, 1933 Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Physics, Molecular Biology, Neuroscience |
| Institutions |
Bell Labs Princeton University University of California, Berkeley California Institute of Technology |
| Alma mater |
Swarthmore College Cornell University |
| 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 J. C. MacKay Terry Sejnowski Bertrand Halperin Steven Girvin Erik Winfree |
| Known for |
Hopfield Network Polariton Kinetic Proofreading |
| Notable awards |
Harold Pender Award (2002) Dirac Medal of the ICTP (2002) Oliver Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society Albert Einstein World Award of Science (2005) |
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.
John Hopfield received his A.B. from Swarthmore College in 1954, and a Ph.D in physics from Cornell University in 1958 (supervised by Albert Overhauser). He spent two years in the theory group at Bell Laboratories, and subsequently was a faculty member at University of California, Berkeley (physics), Princeton University (physics), California Institute of Technology (Chemistry and Biology) and again at Princeton, where he is the Howard A. Prior Professor of Molecular Biology, Emeritus. For 35 years, he also continued a strong connection with Bell Laboratories.
In 1986 he was a co-founder of the Computation and Neural Systems PhD program at Caltech.
He was awarded the Dirac Medal of the ICTP in 2002 for his interdisciplinary contributions to understanding biology as a physical process, including the proofreading process in biomolecular synthesis and a description of collective dynamics and computing with attractors in neural networks, and the Oliver Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society for work on the interactions between light and solids. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received the Albert Einstein World Award of Science in 2005. He was the President of the American Physical Society in 2006.
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