Philip W. Anderson - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1977
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Philip W. Anderson

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1977
for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
12/13/1923
place of birth
Indianapolis
date of death
3/29/2020
place of death
Princeton
Lived
96 years
member of
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 1980
  • Japan Academy
    • start time: 10/12/1988
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1991
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1994
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1967
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 12/16/1985
  • Indian National Science Academy
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Physical Society
doctoral student
  • James P. Sethna
    • end time: 1981
  • Gerald Tesauro
    • end time: 1986
  • Duncan Haldane
  • Ted Hsu
  • Daniel L. Stein
  • Piers Coleman
  • Mark N. Kvale
  • Wuwell W. Liao
employer
  • Princeton University
    • start time: 1975
  • University of Cambridge
    • end time: 1975
    • start time: 1967
  • Santa Fe Institute
  • Bell Labs
occupation
  • writer
  • physicist
  • university teacher
  • theoretical physicist
educated at
  • University Laboratory High School
  • Harvard University
field of work
  • physics
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