John Joseph Hopfield is an American physicist and emeritus professor of Princeton University, most widely known for his study of associative neural networks in 1982. He is known for the development of the Hopfield network. Before its invention, research in artificial intelligence (AI) was in a decay period or AI winter, Hopfield's work revitalized large-scale interest in this field. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024, announced October 8, 2024. John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton, “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”. John J. Hopfield: born 1933, Chicago, IL, USA. Geoffrey Hinton: born 1947, London, United Kingdom. Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).