Hopfield and Hinton win 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics

A view of the sign for the Nobel Prize in Physics in the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Scientists John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning within artificial neural networks, the award-giving body said on Tuesday.

The award comes with a prize sum of 11 million Swedish crowns ($1.1 million), which is shared between the winners if there are several. The physics prize is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

($1 = 10.3407 Swedish crowns)

(Reporting by Niklas Pollard and Johan Ahlander in Stockholm; additional reporting by Terje Solsvik in Oslo and Anna Ringstrom in Stockholm; Editing by Alex Richardson)