John Joseph Hopfield

John Joseph Hopfield

John Joseph Hopfield (b. 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 BA from Swarthmore College, and a Ph.D in physics from Cornell University in 1958. 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 now again at Princeton, where he is the Howard A. Prior Professor of Molecular Biology. For 35 years, he also continued a strong connection with Bell Laboratories.

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 was the President of the American Physical Society in 2006.

His most influential papers have been "The Contribution of Excitons to the Complex Dielectric Constant of Crystals" (1958), describing the polariton; “Electron transfer between biological molecules by thermally activated tunneling” (1974), describing the quantum mechanics of long-range electron transfers; "Kinetic Proofreading: a New Mechanism for Reducing Errors in Biosynthetic Processes Requiring High Specificity" (1974); "Neural networks and physical systems with emergent collective computational abilities" (1982) (known as the Hopfield Network) and, with D. W. Tank, “Neural computation of decisions in optimization problems” (1985). His current research and recent papers are chiefly focused on the ways in which action potential timing and synchrony can be used in neurobiological computation.

He is currently a professor in the department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University and is a former President of the American Physical Society (APS). He previously taught at Princeton in the physics department and at the California Institute of Technology. His undergraduate degree, in physics, is from Swarthmore College (A.B., 1954) and his doctorate, also in physics, is from Cornell University (Ph.D., 1958) under the direction of Albert Overhauser.

Hopfield was born in 1933 to Polish physicist John Joseph Hopfield and his physicist wife Helen Hopfield. Helen was the older Hopfield's second wife. He is the sixth of Hopfield's children and has three children and six grandchildren of his own.

External links

* [http://genomics.princeton.edu/hopfield/ Homepage at Princeton]
* http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/User:Hopfield


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