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Philip Warren Anderson

Born13 December 1923(1923-12-13)
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
NationalityUnited States
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsBell Laboratories
Princeton University
Cambridge University
Alma materHarvard University
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Doctoral advisorJohn Hasbrouck van Vleck
Notable awardsNobel Prize in Physics

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Biography

Anderson was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and grew up in Urbana, Illinois. Urbana (ɝˈbænə is the County seat of Champaign County, Illinois, United States. He graduated from University Laboratory High School in Urbana in 1940. University Laboratory High School, or Uni, was established in 1921 and is a Laboratory school located on the engineering part of the campus of the Afterwards, he went to Harvard University for undergraduate and graduate work, with a wartime stint at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in-between. The United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL is the corporate research laboratory for the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps and conducts a In graduate school he studied under John Hasbrouck van Vleck. John Hasbrouck Van Vleck ( March 13, 1899 &ndash October 27, 1980) was an American physicist.

From 1949 to 1984 he worked at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, where he worked on a wide variety of problems in condensed matter physics. Bell Laboratories (also known as Bell Labs and formerly known as AT&T Bell Laboratories and Bell Telephone Laboratories) is the Research organization New Jersey ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. Condensed matter physics is the field of Physics that deals with the macroscopic physical properties of Matter. During this period he discovered the concept of localization, the idea that extended states can be localized by the presence of disorder in a system; the Anderson Hamiltonian, which describes electrons in a transition metal; the "Higgs" mechanism for generating mass in elementary particles; and the pseudospin approach to the BCS theory of superconductivity. In Chemistry, the term transition metal (sometimes also called a transition element) has two possible meanings It commonly refers to any element in The Higgs mechanism is Spontaneous symmetry breaking in a Gauge theory. Mass is a fundamental concept in Physics, roughly corresponding to the Intuitive idea of how much Matter there is in an object In Particle physics, an elementary particle or fundamental particle is a particle not known to have substructure that is it is not known to be made Superconductivity is a phenomenon occurring in certain Materials generally at very low Temperatures characterized by exactly zero electrical resistance

From 1967 to 1975, Anderson was a professor of theoretical physics at Cambridge University. The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the In 1977 Anderson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his investigations into the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, which allowed for the development of electronic switching and memory devices in computers. The Nobel Prize in Physics (Nobelpriset i fysik is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Co-researchers Sir Nevill Francis Mott and John van Vleck shared the award with him. Sir Nevill Francis Mott ( 30 September, 1905 &ndash 8 August, 1996) FRS, CH, was a British physicist John Hasbrouck Van Vleck ( March 13, 1899 &ndash October 27, 1980) was an American physicist. In 1982, he was awarded the National Medal of Science. The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in Science and Engineering who have made important He retired from Bell Labs in 1984 and is currently Joseph Henry Professor of Physics at Princeton University. Joseph Henry ( December 17 1797 &ndash May 13 1878) was an American scientist who served as the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Princeton University is a private Coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey.

Anderson's writings include Concepts of Solids, Basic Notions of Condensed Matter Physics and The Theory of Superconductivity in the High-Tc Cuprates. Anderson currently serves on the board of advisors of Scientists and Engineers for America, an organization focused on promoting sound science in American government. Scientists and Engineers for America (SEA is an organization focused on promoting sound science in American government and supporting candidates who understand science and its applications He is a certified first degree-master of the Chinese board game Go.

A 2006 statistical analysis of scientific research papers by José Soler, comparing number of references in a paper to the number of citations, declared Anderson to be the "most creative" physicist in the world. [1]

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References

  1. ^ World's most creative physicist revealed - physicsworld.com

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