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Philip W. Anderson

December 07, 2023

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Philip Warren Anderson ForMemRS HonFInstP (December 13, 1923 – March 29, 2020) was an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate. Anderson made contributions to the theories of localization, antiferromagnetism, symmetry breaking (including a paper in 1962 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 emergent phenomena.[3][4][5][6][7] Anderson is also responsible for naming the field of physics that is now known as condensed matter physics.[8]

Philip W. Anderson

ForMemRS HonFInstP
Born
Philip Warren Anderson

(1923-12-13)December 13, 1923
Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
DiedMarch 29, 2020(2020-03-29) (aged 96)
Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
Alma mater
Known for
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Institutions
Doctoral advisorJohn Hasbrouck Van Vleck
Doctoral students

Education and early life edit

Anderson was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and grew up in Urbana, Illinois. His father, Harry Warren Anderson, was a professor of plant pathology at the University of Illinois at Urbana; his maternal grandfather was a mathematician at Wabash College, where Anderson's father studied; and his maternal uncle was a Rhodes Scholar who became a professor of English, also at Wabash College. He graduated from University Laboratory High School in Urbana in 1940. Under the encouragement of a math teacher by the name of Miles Hartley, Anderson enrolled at Harvard University to study under a fully-funded scholarship. He concentrated in "Electronic Physics" and completed his B.S. in 1943, after which he was drafted into the war effort and built antennas at the Naval Research Laboratory until the end of the Second World War in 1945. As an undergraduate, his close associates included particle-nuclear physicist H. Pierre Noyes, philosopher and historian of science Thomas Kuhn and molecular physicist Henry Silsbee. After the war, Anderson returned to Harvard to pursue graduate studies in physics under the mentorship of John Hasbrouck van Vleck; he received his Ph.D. in 1949 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled "The theory of pressure broadening of spectral lines in the microwave and infrared regions."[9]

Career and research edit

From 1949 to 1984, Anderson was employed by Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, where he worked on a wide variety of problems in condensed matter physics. During this period he developed what is now called Anderson localization (the idea that extended states can be localized by the presence of disorder in a system) and Anderson's theorem (concerning impurity scattering in superconductors); invented the Anderson Hamiltonian, which describes the site-wise interaction of electrons in a transition metal; proposed symmetry breaking within particle physics (this played a role in the development of the Standard Model and the development of the theory behind the Higgs mechanism, which in turn generates mass in some elementary particles); created the pseudospin approach to the BCS theory of superconductivity; made seminal studies of non-s-wave pairing (both symmetry-breaking and microscopic mechanism) in the superfluidity of He3, and helped found the area of spin-glasses.[10][11][12][13][14][15][16] He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1963.[17]

Anderson spent a year as lecturer in Cambridge 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 University. In 1977 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 computers. Co-researchers Sir Nevill Francis Mott and John van Vleck shared the award with him. In 1982, he was awarded the National Medal of Science. He retired from Bell Labs in 1984 and was Joseph Henry Professor Emeritus of Physics at Princeton University.[19]

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 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 emergent phenomena, which became an inspiration for the science of complex systems. In 1972 he 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 advancement.[22]

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 edit

He was awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize in 1964, the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977, the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1978,[31] was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1980,[1] and was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1991.[32] He was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1982.[33]

Personal life edit

Anderson was an atheist and was one of 22 Nobel Laureates who signed the Humanist Manifesto.[34][35] Anderson was also interested in Japanese culture, living there for a time and becoming a 1st Dan master of the board game Go.[36] The Nihon Ki-in awarded him a lifetime achievement award in 2007, and Anderson joked that there were only four people in Japan who could beat him.[2]

He died in Princeton, New Jersey, on March 29, 2020, at the age of 96.[37][38]

Publications edit

Books edit

  • 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.; Arrow, Kenneth J.; Pines, David, eds. (1988). The economy as an evolving complex system: the proceedings of the Evolutionary Paths of the Global Economy Workshop, held September, 1987 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Redwood City, California: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. 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 edit

  • Anderson, Philip W. (March 1, 1958). "Absence of diffusion in certain random lattices". Physical Review. 109 (5): 1492–1505. Bibcode:1958PhRv..109.1492A. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.109.1492. Pdf. May 11, 2017, at the Wayback Machine
  • Anderson, Philip W. (April 1, 1963). "Plasmons, gauge invariance, and mass". Physical Review. 130 (1): 439–442. Bibcode:1963PhRv..130..439A. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.130.439.
  • Anderson, Philip W.; Halperin, Bertrand I.; Varma, Chandra M. (January 1972). "Anomalous low-temperature thermal properties of glasses and spin glasses". Philosophical Magazine. 25 (1): 1–9. Bibcode:1972PMag...25....1A. doi:10.1080/14786437208229210. Pdf.
  • Anderson, Philip W. (August 4, 1972). "More is different". Science. 177 (4047): 393–396. Bibcode:1972Sci...177..393A. doi:10.1126/science.177.4047.393. JSTOR 1734697. PMID 17796623. S2CID 34548824. Pdf.
  • Anderson, Philip W. (March 6, 1987). "The resonating valence bond state in La2CuO4 and superconductivity". Science. 235 (4793): 1196–1198. Bibcode:1987Sci...235.1196A. doi:10.1126/science.235.4793.1196. JSTOR 1698247. PMID 17818979. S2CID 28146486.
  • Anderson, Philip W. (July 18, 1995). "Physics: the opening to complexity". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 92 (15): 6653–6654. Bibcode:1995PNAS...92.6653A. doi:10.1073/pnas.92.15.6653. JSTOR 236771. PMC 41390. PMID 11607557. Pdf.
  • Anderson, Philip W. (April 3, 1997). "Mind over matter: Review of The Large, the Small and the Human Mind by Roger Penrose". Nature. 386 (6624): 456. Bibcode:1997Natur.386..456A. doi:10.1038/386456c0. S2CID 4336986.
  • Anderson, Philip W. (October 1997). "When the electron falls apart". Physics Today. 50 (10): 42–49. Bibcode:1997PhT....50j..42A. doi:10.1063/1.881959.
  • Anderson, Philip W. (July 8, 1999). "Computing: solving problems in finite time". Nature. 400 (6740): 115. Bibcode:1999Natur.400..115A. doi:10.1038/22001. PMID 10408432.
  • Anderson, Philip W. (February 2000). "Brainwashed by Feynman?". Physics Today. 53 (2): 11–14. Bibcode:2000PhT....53b..11A. doi:10.1063/1.882955. Pdf.
  • Anderson, Philip W. (September 27, 2005). "Thinking big". Nature. 437 (7059): 625–626. Bibcode:2005Natur.437..625A. doi:10.1038/437625a. PMID 16193027. S2CID 4416556.
  • Anderson, Philip W. (September 1, 2007). "Twenty years of talking past each other: the theory of high TC". Physica C. 460–462 (Part 1): 3–6. Bibcode:2007PhyC..460....3A. doi:10.1016/j.physc.2007.03.261.

References edit

  1. ^ a b . London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on November 14, 2015.
  2. ^ a b "In memoriam: Philip Anderson". Santa Fe Institute. March 30, 2020.
  3. ^ Horgan, J. (1994) Profile: Philip W. Anderson – Gruff Guru of Condensed Matter Physics, Scientific American 271(5), 34-35.
  4. ^ Anderson, P.W. (1997). THE Theory of Superconductivity in High-  Cuprates. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-04365-4.
  5. ^ Anderson, P.W. (1997). Basic Notions of Condensed Matter Physics. Reading: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-201-32830-1.
  6. ^ Anderson, P.W. (1998). Concepts in Solids: Lectures on the Theory of Solids. Singapore: World Scientific. ISBN 978-981-02-3231-3.
  7. ^ Bernstein, Jeremy (1987). Three degrees above zero: Bell Laboratories in the information age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-32983-5.
  8. ^ "Physics professor emeritus and Nobel laureate Phil Anderson dies at age 96". The Princetonian. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
  9. ^ Anderson, Philip W. (1949). The theory of pressure broadening of spectral lines in the microwave and infrared regiona (PhD). University of Harvard. OCLC 1035302001.
  10. ^ Philip W. Anderson (1988). "Spin Glass I: A Scaling Law Rescued". Physics Today. 41 (1): 9–11. Bibcode:1988PhT....41a...9A. doi:10.1063/1.2811268.
  11. ^ Philip W. Anderson (1988). "Spin Glass II: Is There a Phase Transition?". Physics Today. 41 (3): 9. Bibcode:1988PhT....41c...9A. doi:10.1063/1.2811336.
  12. ^ Philip W. Anderson (1988). "Spin Glass III: Theory Raises its Head". Physics Today. 41 (6): 9–11. Bibcode:1988PhT....41f...9A. doi:10.1063/1.2811440.
  13. ^ Philip W. Anderson (1988). "Spin Glass IV: Glimmerings of Trouble". Physics Today. 41 (9): 9–11. Bibcode:1988PhT....41i...9A. doi:10.1063/1.881135.
  14. ^ Philip W. Anderson (1989). "Spin Glass V: Real Power Brought to Bear". Physics Today. 42 (7): 9–11. Bibcode:1989PhT....42g...9A. doi:10.1063/1.2811073. S2CID 122298140.
  15. ^ Philip W. Anderson (1989). "Spin Glass VI: Spin Glass As Cornucopia". Physics Today. 42 (9): 9–11. Bibcode:1989PhT....42i...9A. doi:10.1063/1.2811137.
  16. ^ Philip W. Anderson (1990). "Spin Glass VII: Spin Glass as Paradigm". Physics Today. 43 (3): 9–11. Bibcode:1990PhT....43c...9A. doi:10.1063/1.2810479.
  17. ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved April 18, 2011.
  18. ^ Philip Anderson, "How Josephson Discovered His Effect" 7 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Physics Today, November 1970.
  19. ^ "Display Person – Physics Department, Princeton University". Princeton.edu. February 24, 2011. Retrieved October 25, 2016.
  20. ^ "Board of Advisors". Scientists and Engineers for America. Archived from the original on February 9, 2008. Retrieved March 4, 2008.
  21. ^ Cho, Adrian (March 30, 2020). "Philip Anderson, legendary theorist whose ideas shaped modern physics, dies". Science. AAAS. doi:10.1126/science.abb9809. Retrieved May 25, 2020.
  22. ^ Anderson, P.W. (1972). "More is Different" (PDF). Science. 177 (4047): 393–396. Bibcode:1972Sci...177..393A. doi:10.1126/science.177.4047.393. PMID 17796623. S2CID 34548824.
  23. ^ Pines, David (May 4, 2018). Emerging Sytheses in Science. SFI Press. p. 31. ISBN 978-1-947864-11-5.
  24. ^ "Emergent behavior workshop bridges multiple research fields". SantaFe.edu. January 2, 2008. Retrieved June 3, 2019.
  25. ^ Durrani, Matin (November 2006). "Against reductionism by Philip Anderson" (PDF). Physics World: 10–11 – via https://cds.cern.ch. {{cite journal}}: External link in |via= (help)
  26. ^ "Philip Anderson 1923–2020". aps.org. Retrieved August 13, 2022.
  27. ^ Soler, Jose M (2006). "A Rational Indicator of Scientific Creativity". arXiv:physics/0608006.
  28. ^ Zangwill, Andrew (January 8, 2021). A Mind over Matter: Philip Anderson and the Physics of the Very Many. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-886910-8.
  29. ^ Mody, Cyrus C. M. (2021). "Condensed-matter titan". Physics Today. 74 (10): 61–62. Bibcode:2021PhT....74j..61M. doi:10.1063/PT.3.4858. S2CID 244257346.
  30. ^ "Andrew Zangwill (Georgia Tech)". YouTube. Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter. July 23, 2020. (talk about P. W. Anderson by Zangwill)
  31. ^ "Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement". www.achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement.
  32. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved April 14, 2022.
  33. ^ Clason, Lauren. "Philip W. Anderson". National Science & Technology Medals Foundation. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  34. ^ "Notable Signers". Humanism and Its Aspirations. American Humanist Association. Retrieved September 15, 2012.
  35. ^ Anderson, Philip W. (2011). "Imaginary Friend, Who Art in Heaven". More and Different: Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon. World Scientific. p. 177. 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.
  36. ^ "Philip W. Anderson". Edge. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
  37. ^ Banks, Michael (March 30, 2020). "Condensed-matter physics pioneer Philip Anderson dies aged 96". PhysicsWorld.com.
  38. ^ Veale, Scott (March 30, 2020). "Philip W. Anderson, Nobel Laureate in Physics, Is Dead at 96". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  39. ^ Anderson., Philip W; Arrow, Kenneth Joseph; Pines, David; Santa Fe Institute (January 1, 1988). The Economy as an Evolving Complex System: The Proceedings of the . Avalon. ISBN 9780201156850. Retrieved October 25, 2016.

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  • Philip W. Anderson on Nobelprize.org   including the Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1977 Local Moments and Localized States
  • 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

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For the film editor see Philip W Anderson film editor Philip Warren Anderson ForMemRS HonFInstP December 13 1923 March 29 2020 was an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Anderson made contributions to the theories of localization antiferromagnetism symmetry breaking including a paper in 1962 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 emergent phenomena 3 4 5 6 7 Anderson is also responsible for naming the field of physics that is now known as condensed matter physics 8 Philip W AndersonForMemRS HonFInstPBornPhilip Warren Anderson 1923 12 13 December 13 1923Indianapolis Indiana U S DiedMarch 29 2020 2020 03 29 aged 96 Princeton New Jersey U S Alma materHarvard University United States Naval Research LaboratoryKnown forAnderson localization Anderson Hamiltonian Anderson orthogonality theorem Anderson s theorem Kramers Anderson superexchange RVB theory Many body localization Higgs mechanism Quantum spin liquid Spin glass Polar metalAwardsOliver E Buckley Condensed Matter Prize 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics 1977 ForMemRS 1980 1 National Medal of Science 1982 Nihon Ki in lifetime achievement award 2007 2 Scientific careerFieldsPhysicsInstitutionsBell Laboratories Princeton University Cambridge UniversityDoctoral advisorJohn Hasbrouck Van VleckDoctoral studentsDuncan Haldane Michael Cross Piers Coleman Gabriel Kotliar Contents 1 Education and early life 2 Career and research 3 Awards and honors 4 Personal life 5 Publications 5 1 Books 5 2 Journal articles 6 References 7 External linksEducation and early life editAnderson was born in Indianapolis Indiana and grew up in Urbana Illinois His father Harry Warren Anderson was a professor of plant pathology at the University of Illinois at Urbana his maternal grandfather was a mathematician at Wabash College where Anderson s father studied and his maternal uncle was a Rhodes Scholar who became a professor of English also at Wabash College He graduated from University Laboratory High School in Urbana in 1940 Under the encouragement of a math teacher by the name of Miles Hartley Anderson enrolled at Harvard University to study under a fully funded scholarship He concentrated in Electronic Physics and completed his B S in 1943 after which he was drafted into the war effort and built antennas at the Naval Research Laboratory until the end of the Second World War in 1945 As an undergraduate his close associates included particle nuclear physicist H Pierre Noyes philosopher and historian of science Thomas Kuhn and molecular physicist Henry Silsbee After the war Anderson returned to Harvard to pursue graduate studies in physics under the mentorship of John Hasbrouck van Vleck he received his Ph D in 1949 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled The theory of pressure broadening of spectral lines in the microwave and infrared regions 9 Career and research editFrom 1949 to 1984 Anderson was employed by Bell Laboratories in New Jersey where he worked on a wide variety of problems in condensed matter physics During this period he developed what is now called Anderson localization the idea that extended states can be localized by the presence of disorder in a system and Anderson s theorem concerning impurity scattering in superconductors invented the Anderson Hamiltonian which describes the site wise interaction of electrons in a transition metal proposed symmetry breaking within particle physics this played a role in the development of the Standard Model and the development of the theory behind the Higgs mechanism which in turn generates mass in some elementary particles created the pseudospin approach to the BCS theory of superconductivity made seminal studies of non s wave pairing both symmetry breaking and microscopic mechanism in the superfluidity of He3 and helped found the area of spin glasses 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1963 17 Anderson spent a year as lecturer in Cambridge 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 University In 1977 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 computers Co researchers Sir Nevill Francis Mott and John van Vleck shared the award with him In 1982 he was awarded the National Medal of Science He retired from Bell Labs in 1984 and was Joseph Henry Professor Emeritus of Physics at Princeton University 19 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 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 emergent phenomena which became an inspiration for the science of complex systems In 1972 he 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 advancement 22 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 Jose 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 editHe was awarded the Oliver E Buckley Condensed Matter Prize in 1964 the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977 the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1978 31 was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society ForMemRS in 1980 1 and was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1991 32 He was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1982 33 Personal life editAnderson was an atheist and was one of 22 Nobel Laureates who signed the Humanist Manifesto 34 35 Anderson was also interested in Japanese culture living there for a time and becoming a 1st Dan master of the board game Go 36 The Nihon Ki in awarded him a lifetime achievement award in 2007 and Anderson joked that there were only four people in Japan who could beat him 2 He died in Princeton New Jersey on March 29 2020 at the age of 96 37 38 Publications editBooks edit 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 Arrow Kenneth J Pines David eds 1988 The economy as an evolving complex system the proceedings of the Evolutionary Paths of the Global Economy Workshop held September 1987 in Santa Fe New Mexico Redwood City California Addison Wesley Pub Co 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 edit Anderson Philip W March 1 1958 Absence of diffusion in certain random lattices Physical Review 109 5 1492 1505 Bibcode 1958PhRv 109 1492A doi 10 1103 PhysRev 109 1492 Pdf Archived May 11 2017 at the Wayback Machine Anderson Philip W April 1 1963 Plasmons gauge invariance and mass Physical Review 130 1 439 442 Bibcode 1963PhRv 130 439A doi 10 1103 PhysRev 130 439 Pdf Anderson Philip W Halperin Bertrand I Varma Chandra M January 1972 Anomalous low temperature thermal properties of glasses and spin glasses Philosophical Magazine 25 1 1 9 Bibcode 1972PMag 25 1A doi 10 1080 14786437208229210 Pdf Anderson Philip W August 4 1972 More is different Science 177 4047 393 396 Bibcode 1972Sci 177 393A doi 10 1126 science 177 4047 393 JSTOR 1734697 PMID 17796623 S2CID 34548824 Pdf Anderson Philip W March 6 1987 The resonating valence bond state in La2CuO4 and superconductivity Science 235 4793 1196 1198 Bibcode 1987Sci 235 1196A doi 10 1126 science 235 4793 1196 JSTOR 1698247 PMID 17818979 S2CID 28146486 Pdf Anderson Philip W July 18 1995 Physics the opening to complexity Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 92 15 6653 6654 Bibcode 1995PNAS 92 6653A doi 10 1073 pnas 92 15 6653 JSTOR 236771 PMC 41390 PMID 11607557 Pdf Anderson Philip W April 3 1997 Mind over matter Review of The Large the Small and the Human Mind by Roger Penrose Nature 386 6624 456 Bibcode 1997Natur 386 456A doi 10 1038 386456c0 S2CID 4336986 Anderson Philip W October 1997 When the electron falls apart Physics Today 50 10 42 49 Bibcode 1997PhT 50j 42A doi 10 1063 1 881959 Anderson Philip W July 8 1999 Computing solving problems in finite time Nature 400 6740 115 Bibcode 1999Natur 400 115A doi 10 1038 22001 PMID 10408432 Anderson Philip W February 2000 Brainwashed by Feynman Physics Today 53 2 11 14 Bibcode 2000PhT 53b 11A doi 10 1063 1 882955 Pdf Anderson Philip W September 27 2005 Thinking big Nature 437 7059 625 626 Bibcode 2005Natur 437 625A doi 10 1038 437625a PMID 16193027 S2CID 4416556 Anderson Philip W September 1 2007 Twenty years of talking past each other the theory of high TC Physica C 460 462 Part 1 3 6 Bibcode 2007PhyC 460 3A doi 10 1016 j physc 2007 03 261 References edit 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 T c displaystyle T rm c nbsp Cuprates Princeton Princeton University Press ISBN 978 0 691 04365 4 Anderson P W 1997 Basic Notions of Condensed Matter Physics Reading Addison Wesley ISBN 978 0 201 32830 1 Anderson P W 1998 Concepts in Solids Lectures on the Theory of Solids Singapore World Scientific ISBN 978 981 02 3231 3 Bernstein Jeremy 1987 Three degrees above zero Bell Laboratories in the information age Cambridge Cambridge University Press ISBN 978 0 521 32983 5 Physics professor emeritus and Nobel laureate Phil Anderson dies at age 96 The Princetonian Retrieved March 18 2021 Anderson Philip W 1949 The theory of pressure broadening of spectral lines in the microwave and infrared regiona PhD University of Harvard OCLC 1035302001 Philip W Anderson 1988 Spin Glass I A Scaling Law Rescued Physics Today 41 1 9 11 Bibcode 1988PhT 41a 9A doi 10 1063 1 2811268 Philip W Anderson 1988 Spin Glass II Is There a Phase Transition Physics Today 41 3 9 Bibcode 1988PhT 41c 9A doi 10 1063 1 2811336 Philip W Anderson 1988 Spin Glass III Theory Raises its Head Physics Today 41 6 9 11 Bibcode 1988PhT 41f 9A doi 10 1063 1 2811440 Philip W Anderson 1988 Spin Glass IV Glimmerings of Trouble Physics Today 41 9 9 11 Bibcode 1988PhT 41i 9A doi 10 1063 1 881135 Philip W Anderson 1989 Spin Glass V Real Power Brought to Bear Physics Today 42 7 9 11 Bibcode 1989PhT 42g 9A doi 10 1063 1 2811073 S2CID 122298140 Philip W Anderson 1989 Spin Glass VI Spin Glass As Cornucopia Physics Today 42 9 9 11 Bibcode 1989PhT 42i 9A doi 10 1063 1 2811137 Philip W Anderson 1990 Spin Glass VII Spin Glass as Paradigm Physics Today 43 3 9 11 Bibcode 1990PhT 43c 9A doi 10 1063 1 2810479 Book of Members 1780 2010 Chapter A PDF American Academy of Arts and Sciences Retrieved April 18 2011 Philip Anderson How Josephson Discovered His Effect Archived 7 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine 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 Cho Adrian March 30 2020 Philip Anderson legendary theorist 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