| Philip W. Anderson  AKA Philip Warren Anderson
Born: 13-Dec-1923
Birthplace: Indianapolis, IN
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Solid state physics Military service: US Naval Research Laboratory (WWII) Father: Harry Warren Anderson (professor of plant pathology)
Wife: (married)
High School: University High School
University: PhD, Harvard University (1949)
Professor: Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge (1967-75)
Professor: Princeton University
Bell Laboratories 1949-84
Federation of American Scientists Board of Sponsors
Royal Society
Nobel Prize for Physics 1977 (with John H. van Vleck and Nevill F. Mott)
National Medal of Science 1982
Author of books:
Concepts of Solids (1963, physics)
Basic Notions of Condensed Matter Physics (1984, physics)
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