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Philip W. Anderson

Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist who studied magnetic and disordered systems

Did you know?He was a certified master of the board game Go and credited the game with helping his scientific thinking.

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…

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Born: December 13, 1923 · Indianapolis, United States
Died: March 29, 2020
Nationality: American
Known for: Science, Literature

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