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Philip W. Anderson
Philip Warren Anderson was an American theoretical physicist who shared the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nevill Mott and John Van Vleck "for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems."
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science · American theoretical physicist (1923–2020) · physicist · university teacher · theoretical physicist · writer · also Philip W. Anderson, Philip Anderson, P. W. Anderson, P. Anderson, Philip Warren Anderson, Anderson
Born 13 December 1923 · Died 29 March 2020 · Q190770
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2021· 1 entry
Oxford University Press published the biography A Mind over Matter: Philip Anderson and the Physics of the Very Many by Andrew Zangwill
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2020· 2 entries
Died 2020-03-29.
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In Princeton, New Jersey, at the age of 96
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2007· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the Tsinghua University (2007).
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And Anderson joked that there were only four people in Japan who could beat him
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2006· 1 entry
Published “Maximum entropy modeling of species geographic distributions” in Ecological Modelling — cited 14,867 times.
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded John Bardeen Prize (1997).
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate from ENS (1994).
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1988· 1 entry
Published “Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.” in Psychological Bulletin — cited 31,780 times.
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1987· 1 entry
Anderson testified to the US Congress, "against the construction of the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC), a 40 TeV proton-proton collider in Texas that would have been the biggest experiment in particle physics
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1984· 2 entries
Participated in the founding workshops of the Santa Fe Institute, a multidisciplinary research institute dedicated to the science of complex systems
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And was Joseph Henry Professor Emeritus of Physics at Princeton University
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1982· 2 entries
Won National Medal of Science (1982).
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Was awarded the National Medal of Science
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1980).
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1978· 1 entry
Won Guthrie Medal and Prize (1978).
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1977· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1977).
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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 com
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded Dannie Heineman Prize (1975).
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1972· 1 entry
Wrote an article called "More is Different" in which he emphasized the limitations of reductionism and the existence of hierarchical levels of science, each of which requires its own fundamental principles for advance
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1964· 1 entry
Awarded Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1964).
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1962· 1 entry
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
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1943· 1 entry
After which he was drafted into the war effort and built antennas in the Naval Research Laboratory until the end of the Second World War in 1945
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1923· 2 entries
In Indianapolis, Indiana, and grew up in Urbana, Illinois
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Born 1923-12-13.
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