# Daniel Amit

> Daniel J. Amit was an Israeli and Italian physicist and pacifist, who was one of the pioneers in the field of computational neuroscience. Amit, Hanoch Gutfreund and Haim Sompolinsky, in a set of papers referred to as the ASG papers, were the first to demonstrate the utility of statistical mechanics in neural network research and helped establish theoretical and computational neuroscience as a novel approach that brings into brain research unique powerful sets of concepts, models, and standards of rigour.

*Physicist (1938-2007)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** Israel
- **Born:** 1938-05-05
- **Died:** 2007-11-04
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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## Fame
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- [Daniel J. Amit](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Amit)
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- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2897032)

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