Philip W. Anderson

Philip Anderson
Philip Anderson
Born	Philip Warren Anderson; December 13, 1923; Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Died	March 29, 2020 (aged 96); Princeton, New Jersey, US
Alma mater	Harvard University (BS, MA, PhD)
Known for	Anderson localization; Anderson Hamiltonian; Anderson's theorem; Anderson orthogonality theorem; RVB theory; Many-body localization; Superexchange; Higgs mechanism; Quantum spin liquid; Spin glass; Polar metal;
Awards	Oliver E. Buckley Prize (1964); Nobel Prize in Physics (1977); Guthrie Medal and Prize (1978); National Medal of Science (1982);
	Scientific career
Fields	Condensed matter physics
Institutions	Bell Telephone Laboratories; Princeton University; University of Cambridge;
Thesis	The Theory of Pressure Broadening of Spectral Lines in the Microwave and Infrared Regions (1949)
Doctoral advisor	John Van Vleck
Doctoral students	Richard G. Palmer (1973); Duncan Haldane (1978); Gabriel Kotliar (1983); Piers Coleman (1984); Clare Yu (1984); Ted Hsu (1989);
Other notable students	Shlomo Alexander; Antoine Georges; Brian Josephson; Erio Tosatti;

Philip Warren Anderson (December 13, 1923 – March 29, 2020) was an American theoretical physicist who shared the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nevill Mott and John Van Vleck "for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems."

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