Nobel Prize in Physics 2024

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Prize share: 1/2

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Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 was awarded jointly to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks"

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