Philip W. Anderson

Philip W. Anderson
ForMemRS HonFInstP
Philip W. Anderson ForMemRS HonFInstP
Born	Philip Warren Anderson; December 13, 1923; Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
Died	March 29, 2020 (aged 96); Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
Alma mater	Harvard University; United States Naval Research Laboratory;
Known for	Anderson 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 metal;
Awards	Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1964); Nobel Prize in Physics (1977); ForMemRS (1980); National Medal of Science (1982); Nihon Ki-in lifetime achievement award (2007);
	Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Bell Laboratories; Princeton University; Cambridge University;
Doctoral advisor	John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
Doctoral students	Michael Cross (1975); Duncan Haldane (1978); Gabriel Kotliar (1983); Piers Coleman (1984); Ted Hsu (1989); Philip Casey (2010);

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. Anderson is also responsible for naming the field of physics that is now known as condensed matter physics.

Philip W. Anderson ForMemRS HonFInstP

Born	Philip Warren Anderson (1923-12-13)December 13, 1923 Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
Died	March 29, 2020(2020-03-29) (aged 96) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
Alma mater	Harvard University United States Naval Research Laboratory
Known for	Anderson 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 metal
Awards	Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1964) Nobel Prize in Physics (1977) ForMemRS (1980) National Medal of Science (1982) Nihon Ki-in lifetime achievement award (2007)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Bell Laboratories Princeton University Cambridge University
Doctoral advisor	John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
Doctoral students	Michael Cross (1975) Duncan Haldane (1978) Gabriel Kotliar (1983) Piers Coleman (1984) Ted Hsu (1989) Philip Casey (2010)