Nobel Prize in Physics 2024

Photo of John J. Hopfield

© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Nanaka Adachi

Prize share: 1/2

Photo of Geoffrey Hinton

© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Clément Morin

Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 was awarded jointly to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks"

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