Philip W. Anderson
Nobel laureate who shaped condensed matter physics and emergent phenomena.
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Philip Warren Anderson was an American theoretical physicist who shared the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nevill Mott and John Van Vleck.[1] The field of condensed matter physics was both named and significantly influenced by Anderson.[2]
Life and work
He developed Anderson localization, the Anderson Hamiltonian, and proposed symmetry breaking within particle physics.[3] Anderson spent 1961–1962 as a lecturer at the University of Cambridge and was a professor of theoretical physics there from 1967 to 1975.[4][5] Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey was Anderson's employer for a period spanning from 1949 to 1984.[3] The Nobel Prize in Physics was presented to Anderson in 1977 for his research concerning the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems.[5]
What the cited sources add
The Santa Fe Institute memorial notes that Anderson helped found SFI and participated in its first workshops in 1984.[6] Anderson argued that the mathematical description of spin glasses was broadly applicable to systems like neurons and the genome.[6] The Santa Fe Institute account states that two of Anderson’s doctoral students later became Nobel laureates: Brian Josephson and Duncan Haldane.[6] According to The Princetonian, it was Anderson who gave the name to the field now called condensed matter physics.[2]
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- Wikipedia, "Philip W. Anderson" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Nobel Prize in Physics 1977", Nobel Foundation (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- "Physics professor emeritus and Nobel laureate Phil Anderson dies at age 96", The Princetonian. facts only, no text reused. dailyprincetonian.com
- Wikipedia, "Philip W. Anderson" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Philip W. Anderson, "Spin Glass I: A Scaling Law Rescued", Physics Today, 1988, p. 9–11; Philip W. Anderson, "Spin Glass II: Is There a Phase Transition?", Physics Today, 1988, p. 9; Philip W. Anderson, "Spin Glass III: Theory Raises its Head", Physics Today, 1988, p. 9–11; Philip W. Anderson, "Spin Glass IV: Glimmerings of Trouble", Physics Today, 1988, p. 9–11; Philip W. Anderson, "Spin Glass V: Real Power Brought to Bear", Physics Today, 1989, p. 9–11; Philip W. Anderson, "Spin Glass VI: Spin Glass As Cornucopia", Physics Today, 1 en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Philip W. Anderson" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Philip Anderson, "How Josephson Discovered His Effect" , Physics Today, November 1970. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Philip W. Anderson" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Display Person – Physics Department, Princeton University", Princeton.edu, February 24, 2011 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- "In memoriam: Philip Anderson", Santa Fe Institute, March 30, 2020. facts only, no text reused. santafe.edu
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