John J. Hopfield received his A.B. from Swarthmore College in 1954 and his Ph.D. in physics from Cornell University in 1958. Following two years at AT&T Bell Laboratories;
he held various positions at the Ecole Normale Superieure;
Paris;
University of California;
Berkeley;
Princeton University;
Bohr Institute;
Copenhagen;
Cavendish Lab;
Cambridge;
England;
and is presently dividing his time as a Professor of chemistry and biology at California Institute of Technology;
Pasadena;
California;
and a Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill;
New Jersey. He is a Member;
American Academy of Arts and Sciences;
Member of National Academy of Sciences;
Fellow;
American Association for the Advancement of Science;
American Physical Society and has received numerous awards for his work in solid-state physics and neural networking. These awards include the Buckley Prize in 1969 and the Biological Physics Prize in 1985;
both from the American Physical Society;
the John and Catherine T. Mac Arthur Award in 1983;
and the Michelson-Morley Award in 1988. His present research interests include studies of the physics of biomolecular functions and neural networks;