The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded annually since 1901 and is endowed with eleven million Swedish kronor (approx. 970,000 euros). The 2024 prize goes to John J. Hopfield of Princeton University and Geoffrey E. Hinton of the University of Toronto – for research into the foundations of machine learning.
- John Joseph Hopfield (born 1933 in Chicago, USA) is best known for his invention of an associative neural network (Hopfield network) in 1982. He also works on solid state physics and the physics of neural networks and emerging collective computation.
- Geoffrey E. Hinton (born 1947, Great Britain) is a computer scientist and cognitive psychologist. He researches the application of artificial neural networks in the areas of learning, memory, perception and symbol processing.
Last year the prize went to the Austro-Hungarian physicist Ferenc Krausz, his colleague Pierre Agostini, who works in the US, and the physicist Anne L’Huillier, who works in Sweden.
They were honored for experimental methods that generate attosecond light pulses to study the dynamics of electrons in matter. In 2022, Upper Austrian Anton Zeilinger received this honor.
John Bardeen is the only laureate to have received the Nobel Prize in Physics twice, in 1956 and 1972. He is one of five people to have received the Nobel Prize twice. The prize is awarded every year on December 10, the anniversary of the death of founder Alfred Nobel.
Source: Krone
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