John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024. Photo: www.nobelprize.org
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”, The Royal Swedish Academy of Science announced on Tursday (October 8, 2024).
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Last year, The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electro dynamics in matter.
The Nobel announcement week kicked off on Monday (October 7, 2024) with the Medicine Nobel announcement. The academy awarded Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun the Nobel Prize for Physiology for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.
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The winner for Chemistry will be announced tomorrow (October 9) and the winners of the Literature, Peace and Economic Sciences Prize will be declared on October 10, October 11, and October 14 respectively.
The prizes carry a cash award of 10 million Swedish kronor (nearly $900,000) and will be awarded on December 10.
The Nobel Prize was created by Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who in his will dictated that his estate should be used to fund “prizes to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind”.
(With inputs from Agencies)
Published – October 08, 2024 03:20 pm IST
