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Philip W. Anderson

Philip W. Anderson
Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2020)

Philip Warren Anderson was an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate. Anderson made contributions to the theories of localization, antiferromagnetism, symmetry breaking, and high-temperature superconductivity, and to the philosophy of science through his writings on emergent phenomena. Anderson is also responsible for naming the field of physics that is now known as condensed matter physics.

13 December 1923

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