The Nobel Prize in Physics 1977
Awarded on: 1977-10-11
"for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems"
Affiliations:
- Bell Telephone Laboratories – Murray Hill, NJ, USA
Philip Warren Anderson
Born: 1923-12-13 in Indianapolis, IN, USA
Gender: male
Field: American physicist (1923–2020)
Biography
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.