Philip Warren Anderson
Philip Warren Anderson ( born December 13, 1923 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American, a theoretical physicist and in 1977 together with Nevill F. Mott and John H. Van Vleck the Nobel Prize in Physics " for fundamental theoretical benefits to the electronic structure in magnetic and disordered systems " get.
Academic Career
Anderson grew up in Urbana, Illinois, and educated at Harvard, where he worked during his studies at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. In 1943, he received his BS degree in 1949 and his PhD in physics from Harvard University with John H. Van Vleck.
From 1949 to 1984 he was at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, where he became head of the Department of Theoretical Physics in 1959 until 1961. 1974-1976 he was there. Deputy director of the Physics Laboratory from 1976 to 1982 and whose consulting director At the same time, he was from 1961 to 1962 Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University and has held from 1967 to 1975 at the selfsame University Professor of Theoretical Physics ( as a Fellow of Jesus College). In 1975, Anderson then returned to the USA and became Joseph Henry Professor of Physics at Princeton University. Since 1997 Philip W. Anderson is Professor Emeritus at the University there. From 1985 he was professor at the Santa Fe Institute, in whose direction he was also active.
1982 to 1986 he was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Aspen Center of Physics.
Research
Anderson is concerned with the theory of condensed matter ( solid state physics ) with a focus on magnetism, disordered systems and quantum fluids. He also dealt with fundamental problems in quantum physics such as broken symmetries or even line broadening and Others From him comes the concept of Anderson localization. In the 1990s, he developed his own theories of high-temperature superconductors.
In addition to these main research areas, Philip W. Anderson is particularly interested in biophysics, neural networks, Computers and complexity. Anderson is also considered a major natural-philosophical thinkers of his discipline, including in the field of emergence. Known in this context here is above all his Science article " More is Different " from the year 1972.
Prices
For his researches Philip W. Anderson was awarded a number of prizes and honors. The most important are ( in chronological order ):
In 1967 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Life outside physics
Anderson was certified 1- Dan (1st master degree) of the Japanese board game Go.
Writings
- Concepts in solids. Lectures on the theory of solids. Addison -Wesley, Redwood City, CA et al 1992, ISBN 0-201-53355-3 ( World Scientific, Singapore et al 1997, ISBN 981-02-3195-4 ).
- A career in theoretical physics ( = World Scientific Series in 20th Century Physics Vol. 7). World Scientific, Singapore et al 1994, ISBN 981-02-1717- X (Reprint Collection).
- Basic notions of condensed matter physics ( = Frontiers in Physics Vol. 55). Benjamin - Cummings, Menlo Park CA et al 1984, ISBN 0-8053-0220-4 (Addison -Wesley, Reading MA 1997 ISBN 0-201-32830-5 ).
- The Theory of Superconductivity in High - cuprate. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ et al 1997, ISBN 0-691-04365-5.
- More and Different - Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon. World Scientific, Singapore et al 2011, ISBN 978-981-4350-12-9 ( collection of reviews and essays ).