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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