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Philip Warren Anderson

1923 - 2020

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Philip Warren Anderson (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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Philip Warren Anderson is the 48th most popular physicist (up from 256th in 2019), the 137th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,033rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Physicist.

Philip Warren Anderson is most famous for his work in the field of condensed matter physics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977 for his discovery of how electrons behave in a metal.

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Among physicists, Philip Warren Anderson ranks 48 out of 851. Before him are Pieter Zeeman, William Gilbert, Luigi Galvani, Nevill Francis Mott, David J. Thouless, and Charles Édouard Guillaume. After him are Gustav Kirchhoff, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Brian Josephson, Gabriel Lippmann, K. Alex Müller, and Wilhelm Wien.

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Among people born in 1923, Philip Warren Anderson ranks 5. Before him are Henry Kissinger, Maria Callas, Lee Kuan Yew, and Shimon Peres. After him are Wisława Szymborska, Idi Amin, Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, Heydar Aliyev, Charlton Heston, Joseph Heller, and Wojciech Jaruzelski. Among people deceased in 2020, Philip Warren Anderson ranks 5. Before him are Diego Maradona, Hosni Mubarak, Ennio Morricone, and Sean Connery. After him are Kirk Douglas, Betty Williams, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Qaboos bin Said al Said, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Pierre Cardin, and Max von Sydow.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Philip Warren Anderson ranks 137 out of 20,380. Before him are Henry David Thoreau (1817), Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929), Michael Douglas (1944), Noam Chomsky (1928), H. P. Lovecraft (1890), and Liliʻuokalani (1838). After him are John Adams (1735), Woody Allen (1935), Jimi Hendrix (1942), Robert McNamara (1916), Harrison Ford (1942), and Chuck Norris (1940).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Philip Warren Anderson ranks 3. Before him are J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904), and Charles H. Townes (1915). After him are Richard Feynman (1918), Sheldon Lee Glashow (1932), Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (1915), Luis Walter Alvarez (1911), Robert Andrews Millikan (1868), Carl David Anderson (1905), Barry Barish (1936), Ben Roy Mottelson (1926), and Percy Williams Bridgman (1882).

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