Two scientists won Nobel Prize 2024 for Physics
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in News/ October 8,2024
The Nobel Prize official social media handle made the announcement on X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday. The post read “The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
2024 physics laureate Geoffrey Hinton used a network developed by his co-laureate John Hopfield as the foundation for a new network: the Boltzmann machine. This can learn to recognise characteristic elements in a given type of data.
The Boltzmann machine can be used to classify images or create new examples of the type of pattern on which it was trained. Hinton has built upon this work, helping initiate the current explosive development of machine learning.
“The laureates’ work has already been of the greatest benefit. In physics we use artificial neural networks in a vast range of areas, such as developing new materials with specific properties,” says Ellen Moons, Chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics.
Hopfield, 91, a professor at Princeton University, was spotlighted for having created “an associative memory that can store and reconstruct images and other types of patterns in data.” The jury said Hinton, a 76-year-old professor at the University of Toronto, “invented a method that can autonomously find properties in data, and so perform tasks such as identifying specific elements in pictures.”
Two scientists won Nobel Prize 2024 for Physics. Born in 1933 in Chicago, USA, John J. Hopfield did PhD in 1958 from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York and a professor at Princeton University in New Jersey. Besides, Geoffrey E. Hinton, born in 1947 in London, UK, did PhD from The University of Edinburgh and is currently a professor at the University of Toronto in Canada.
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