Philip W. Anderson
American theoretical physicist
Died when: 96 years 107 days (1155 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
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.
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