Nobel Prize in Physics, 2024

• John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton have been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics.

• The award is given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences "for fundamental discoveries and inventions enabling machine learning with artificial neural networks."

• The prize carries a cash prize of 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million).

• Both Nobel laureates developed methods using tools from physics that are the foundation of today's powerful machine learning.

• John Hopfield created an associative memory that can store and reconstruct images and other kinds of patterns in data.