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Before its invention, research in artificial intelligence (AI) was in a decay period or AI winter; Hopfield's work revitalized large-scale interest in this field.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"15 July 1933","date":"1933-07-15"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q391237#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Chicago","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1297"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q391237#P19"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"United States","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q391237#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"physicist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q169470"},{"text":"molecular biologist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15839206"},{"text":"university teacher","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1622272"},{"text":"artificial intelligence researcher","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15976092"},{"text":"biophysicist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14906342"},{"text":"neuroscientist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6337803"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q391237#P106"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5202383","end":"1958"},{"text":"Swarthmore College","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1378320","end":"1954"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q391237#P69"}},{"key":"spouse","label":"Spouse","values":[{"text":"Cornelia Fuller","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130468774"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q391237#P26"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"Guggenheim Fellowship","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1316544","date":"1968"},{"text":"MacArthur Fellows Program","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1543268"},{"text":"Albert Einstein World Award of Science","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1287930"},{"text":"Harold Pender Award","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10354962","date":"2002"},{"text":"IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5970364","date":"2009"},{"text":"Oliver E. 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