Philip W. Anderson
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Philip Warren Anderson ForMemRS HonFInstP (December 13, 1923 – March 29, 2020) was an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate. Anderson made contributions to the theories of localization, antiferromagnetism, symmetry breaking (including a paper in 1962 discussing symmetry breaking in particle physics, leading to the development of the Standard Model around 10 years later), and high-temperature superconductivity, and to the philosophy of science through his writings on emergent phenomena.[3][4][5][6][7] Anderson is also responsible for naming the field of physics that is now known as condensed matter physics.[8]
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Born | Philip Warren Anderson (1923-12-13)December 13, 1923 Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. |
Died | March 29, 2020(2020-03-29) (aged 96) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. |
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Fields | Physics |
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Doctoral advisor | John Hasbrouck Van Vleck |
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