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Now What? John J Hopfield, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. http://pni.princeton.edu/john-hopfield October 2018 My first full-time permanent employment was at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill NJ, where the transistor had been invented 10 years earlier. Its six- person theoretical physics group had hired me as a Member of Technical Staff. My physics thesis written and approved, and all other PhD requirements completed at Cornell University, I reported to work early in March 1958. A first half-day of employment was spent on administrative details. I joined a…

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