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Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Hopfield and Hinton for neural-network foundations

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Source: NobelPrize.org

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics on 8 October to John Hopfield of Princeton University and Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto ‘for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks’. The two share 11 million Swedish kronor.

Why it matters

Physicists and AI researchers saw the physics prize credit the neural-network methods behind modern machine learning, a day before the chemistry prize went to AlphaFold’s developers and David Baker.

When
8 Oct 2024
ID
WTA-N-2024-0029
Where
Sweden, United States, Canada
Who
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Princeton University, University of Toronto; John Hopfield, Geoffrey Hinton

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from NobelPrize.org. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

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Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Documents the source offers: document 1 (PDF), document 2 (PDF), document 3 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2024-0029: “Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Hopfield and Hinton for neural-network foundations.” wheresthe.ai, 8 Oct 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/se-nobel-physics-hopfield-hinton-2024-10/ (source: NobelPrize.org).

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