Philip W. Anderson
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Born | Philip Warren Anderson December 13, 1923 Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. |
Died | March 29, 2020 , U.S. | (aged 96)
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Fields | Physics |
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Doctoral advisor | John Hasbrouck Van Vleck |
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Philip Warren Anderson
Education and early life
Anderson was born in
Career and research
From 1949 to 1984, Anderson was employed by
Anderson spent a year as lecturer at Cambridge University in 1961–1962, and recalled that having Brian Josephson in a class was "a disconcerting experience for a lecturer, I can assure you, because everything had to be right or he would come up and explain it to me after class."[18]
From 1967 to 1975, Anderson was a professor of theoretical physics at Cambridge. In 1977 Anderson was awarded the
Anderson's writings included Concepts in Solids, Basic Notions of Condensed Matter Physics and The Theory of Superconductivity in the High-Tc Cuprates. Anderson served on the board of advisors of Scientists and Engineers for America, an organization focused on promoting sound science in American government.[20]
In response to the discovery of high-temperature superconductors in the 1980s, Anderson proposed Resonating valence bond (RVB) theory to explain the phenomenon. While many found the idea unconvincing, RVB theory proved instrumental in the study of spin liquids.[21]
Anderson also made conceptual contributions to the philosophy of science through his explication of
In 1984, he participated in the founding workshops of the Santa Fe Institute, a multidisciplinary research institute dedicated to the science of complex systems.[23] Anderson also co-chaired the institute's 1987 conference on economics with Kenneth Arrow and W. Brian Arthur, and participated in its 2007 workshop on models of emergent behavior in complex systems.[24]
In 1987, 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. Anderson's opposition to the SSC did not directly lead to its cancellation in 1993—spiralling costs were the main factor—but he was perhaps its most high-profile opponent."[25] He was, "skeptical of the supposed boost it would provide to science in the US and the claim that the spin-offs would provide great return on investment."[26]
A 2006 statistical analysis of scientific research papers by José Soler, comparing the number of references in a paper to the number of citations, declared Anderson to be the "most creative" amongst ten most cited physicists in the world.[27] In 2021, Oxford University Press published the biography A Mind over Matter: Philip Anderson and the Physics of the Very Many by Andrew Zangwill.[28][29][30]
Awards and honors
He was awarded the
Personal life
Anderson was an
He died in Princeton, New Jersey, on March 29, 2020, at the age of 96.[37][38]
Publications
Books
- Anderson, Philip W. (1954). Notes on theory of magnetism. Tokyo: University of Tokyo. OCLC 782103851.
- Anderson, Philip W. (1997) [1963]. Concepts in solids: lectures on the theory of solids. Singapore River Edge, New Jersey: World Scientific. ISBN 9789810232313.
- Anderson, Philip W. (1997) [1984]. Basic notions of condensed matter physics. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 9780201328301.
- Anderson, Philip W.; ISBN 9780201156850.[39]
- Anderson, Philip W. (2004) [1994]. A career in theoretical physics. World Scientific Series in 20th Century Physics, volume 35. Singapore Hackensack, New Jersey: World Scientific Pub. Co. ISBN 9789812567154.
- Anderson, Philip W. (1997). The theory of superconductivity in the high-TC cuprates. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691043654.
- Anderson, Philip W. (2011). More and different: notes from a thoughtful curmudgeon. Singapore Hackensack, New Jersey: World Scientific. ISBN 9789814350143.
Journal articles
- Anderson, Philip W. (March 1, 1958). "Absence of diffusion in certain random lattices".
- Anderson, Philip W. (April 1, 1963). "Plasmons, gauge invariance, and mass".
- Anderson, Philip W.;
- Anderson, Philip W. (August 4, 1972). "More is different".
- Anderson, Philip W. (March 6, 1987). "The resonating valence bond state in La2CuO4 and superconductivity".
- Anderson, Philip W. (July 18, 1995). "Physics: the opening to complexity".
- Anderson, Philip W. (April 3, 1997). "Mind over matter: Review of The Large, the Small and the Human Mind by Roger Penrose". S2CID 4336986.
- Anderson, Philip W. (October 1997). "When the electron falls apart". doi:10.1063/1.881959.
- Anderson, Philip W. (July 8, 1999). "Computing: solving problems in finite time". PMID 10408432.
- Anderson, Philip W. (February 2000). "Brainwashed by Feynman?". doi:10.1063/1.882955. Pdf.
- Anderson, Philip W. (September 27, 2005). "Thinking big". S2CID 4416556.
- Anderson, Philip W. (September 1, 2007). "Twenty years of talking past each other: the theory of high TC". .
References
- ^ a b "Professor Philip Anderson ForMemRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on November 14, 2015.
- ^ a b "In memoriam: Philip Anderson". Santa Fe Institute. March 30, 2020.
- ^ Horgan, J. (1994) Profile: Philip W. Anderson – Gruff Guru of Condensed Matter Physics, Scientific American 271(5), 34-35.
- ^ Anderson, P.W. (1997). THE Theory of Superconductivity in High- Cuprates. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-04365-4.
- ISBN 978-0-201-32830-1.
- ISBN 978-981-02-3231-3.
- ISBN 978-0-521-32983-5.
- ^ "Physics professor emeritus and Nobel laureate Phil Anderson dies at age 96". The Princetonian. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
- OCLC 1035302001.
- ^ Philip W. Anderson (1988). "Spin Glass I: A Scaling Law Rescued". Physics Today. 41 (1): 9–11. .
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Philip W. Anderson (1988). "Spin Glass IV: Glimmerings of Trouble". Physics Today. 41 (9): 9–11. doi:10.1063/1.881135.
- S2CID 122298140.
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- ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved April 18, 2011.
- , Physics Today, November 1970.
- ^ "Display Person – Physics Department, Princeton University". Princeton.edu. February 24, 2011. Retrieved October 25, 2016.
- ^ "Board of Advisors". Scientists and Engineers for America. Archived from the original on February 9, 2008. Retrieved March 4, 2008.
- . Retrieved May 25, 2020.
- S2CID 34548824.
- ISBN 978-1-947864-11-5.
- ^ "Emergent behavior workshop bridges multiple research fields". SantaFe.edu. January 2, 2008. Retrieved June 3, 2019.
- ^ Durrani, Matin (November 2006). "Against reductionism by Philip Anderson" (PDF). Physics World: 10–11 – via https://cds.cern.ch.
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- ^ "Philip Anderson 1923–2020". aps.org. Retrieved August 13, 2022.
- arXiv:physics/0608006.
- ISBN 978-0-19-886910-8.
- S2CID 244257346.
- ^ "Andrew Zangwill (Georgia Tech)". YouTube. Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter. July 23, 2020. (talk about P. W. Anderson by Zangwill)
- American Academy of Achievement.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved April 14, 2022.
- ^ Clason, Lauren. "Philip W. Anderson". National Science & Technology Medals Foundation. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
- ^ "Notable Signers". Humanism and Its Aspirations. American Humanist Association. Retrieved September 15, 2012.
- ISBN 9789814350129.
We atheists can, as he does, argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not reveal itself in normal social discourse.
- ^ "Philip W. Anderson". Edge. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
- ^ Banks, Michael (March 30, 2020). "Condensed-matter physics pioneer Philip Anderson dies aged 96". PhysicsWorld.com.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
- ISBN 9780201156850. Retrieved October 25, 2016.
External links
- Philip W. Anderson on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1977 Local Moments and Localized States
- Video clip of Philip Anderson speaking at the International Conference on Complex Systems, Hosted by the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI)
- Oral History interview transcript for Philip W. Anderson on 10 May 1988, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives
- Oral History interview transcript for Philip W. Anderson on 15 and 29 October and 5 November 1999, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives - Session I
- Oral History interview transcript with Philip W. Anderson on 8 March 2002, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives - Session II
- Oral History interview transcript with Philip W. Anderson on 22 March 2002, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives - Session III
- Oral History interview transcript with Philip W. Anderson on 29 May 2002, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives - Session IV
- Oral History interview transcript with Philip W. Anderson on 30 March 1999, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives - Session I
- Oral History interview transcript with Philip W. Anderson on 30 May 1999, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives - Session II
- Oral History interview transcript with Philip W. Anderson on 23 November 1999, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives - Session III
- Oral History interview transcript with Philip W. Anderson on 29 June 2000, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives - Session IV