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The chemistry prize was given to scientists for their work
John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton have shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries and inventions that formed the buildingblocks of machine learning. Ellen Moons, a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, said that the two laureates used fundamental concepts from statistics to design artificial neural networks that function as associative memories…
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The chemistry won the prize for tiny quantum dot particles
Three chemists who predicted and were first to make quantum dots, nanoscale crystals that interact with light in unusual ways, have been awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the award to the trio of Nikolay Brus from Denmark, Sergey Ekimov from Belarus and Konstantin Novoselov from Russia.