
IOP congratulates 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics winners
8 October 2024
President of the IOP welcomes award for machine learning pioneers.
Commenting this morning following the announcement of this year’s winners, IOP President Professor Sir Keith Burnett said: “Congratulations to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton for winning the Nobel Prize in Physics today.”
He added: “It is incredibly exciting to see key ideas and techniques in physics helping to drive new ways to model and understand the wider world and machine learning is undoubtedly one of the transformational technologies of the future.
“Their work with artificial neural networks is contributing to a whole new generation of smarter, faster and more adaptable processing and thinking systems, which could transform all of our lives.”
The pair share a prize of 11m Swedish kronor (£810,000).
John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton. Illustration: Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach.