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expertise). I wanted to make this post because there are some very basic misconceptions that are circulating about this year's Nobel Prize. I do not want to debate whether or not it was a good choice (I personally don't think it is, but for different reasons than the typical discourse), I just want to debunk some common arguments relating to the prize choice which are simply wrong.
Myth 1. "These are not physicists." Geoffrey Hinton is not a physicist.
JJ Hopfield is definitely a physicist. He is an emeritus professor of physics at Princeton and served as President of the American Physical Society. His students include notable condensed matter theorists like Bertrand Halperin, former chair of physics at Harvard.
Myth 2. "This work is not physics." This.
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