Helen Hopfield
Helen Hopfield | |
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| Born | Helen Staff 1899 Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, United States |
| Died | January 16, 1989 (aged 89–90) United States |
| Alma mater | Mount Holyoke College |
| Known for | Hopfield model for the troposphere |
| Spouse | John J. Hopfield |
| Children | 3, including John |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Atmospheric physics |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley Applied Physics Laboratory |
Helen Hopfield (née Staff, 1899 – January 16, 1989) was an American physicist who worked at the Applied Physics Laboratory. Her contributions in atmospheric physics and orbital mechanics allowed for more precise satellite-tracking technologies. The Hopfield model to study the troposphere is named in her honor.
She was the wife of spectroscopist John J. Hopfield, also a physicist known for his research on ultraviolet spectroscopy, and the mother of John Joseph, Jr., a winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.