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Philip Warren Anderson

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Philip Warren Anderson 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. He is also credited with naming the field of physics now known as condensed matter physics.

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Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account
1923-12-13 1
Death DateSourced to the subject's own account
2020-03-29 1
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1. Philip Warren Anderson (Wikipedia)
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  • Lead section (MediaWiki plaintext extract), first paragraph
    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."
  • Infobox, Born
    December 13, 1923
  • Infobox, Died
    March 29, 2020
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