In 1977Anderson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his investigations into the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, which allowed for the development of electronic switching and memory devices in computers.
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The 1977 Nobel Prize in physics that PhilipWarrenAnderson shared with Nevill Francis Mott and John Van Vleck was given not so much for one specific discovery but for his contributions over a number of years to the study of magnetism and disordered states.
PhilipWarrenAnderson was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on December 13, 1923, but he grew up in Urbana, Illinois.
Anderson's father, Harry WarrenAnderson, was a professor of plant pathology at the University of Illinois; his mother, the former Elsie Osborne, was the daughter of a professor of mathematics.
Anderson was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and educated at Harvard University.
In the early 1960s he investigated the interatomic effects that influence the magnetic properties of metals and alloys, devising a theoretical model (now called the Anderson model) to describe the effect of the presence of an impurity atom in a metal.
In addition, Anderson has studied the relationship between superconductivity, superfluidity, and laser action, and predicted the existence of resistance in superconductors.
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ANDERSON, PHILIPWARREN[Anderson, PhilipWarren]1923-, American physicist, b.
After graduation he worked at Bell Laboratories; in 1975 he became a professor of physics at Princeton Univ. In 1977 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his investigations into the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, which allowed for the development of electronic switching and memory devices in computers.
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PhilipWarrenAnderson is an American physicist who (with John H. Van Vleck and Sir Nevill F. Mott) received the 1977 Nobel Prize for Physics for his research on semiconductors, superconductivity, and magnetism.
He conceived a model (known as the Anderson model) to describe what happens when an impurity atom is present in a metal.
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Anderson, Philip W. American physicist and corecipient, with John H. Van Vleck and Sir Nevill F. Mott, of the 1977 Nobel Prize for Physics for his research on semiconductors, superconductivity, and magnetism.
U.S. artist Alexander Anderson is sometimes described as “the father of American wood engraving.” He was the first practitioner of the art in the United States, and his career was long and prolific.
In his short stories and novels, the American writer Sherwood Anderson protested against the frustrations of ordinary people and against what he believed to be the narrow-minded conventions of his time.
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US physicist who shared the 1977 Nobel Prize for Physics with Nevill Mott and John Van Vleck for his theoretical work on the behaviour of electrons in magnetic, non-crystalline solids.
Anderson was born in Indianapolis on 13 December1923 and was educated at Harvard University, from which he gained his BS in 1943, MS in 1947 and PhD in 1949; he did his doctoral thesis under Van Vleck.
Anderson's studies were interrupted by military service during part of World War II: from 1943 to 1945 he worked...
From 1949 to 1984 he worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J. From 1967 to 1975 he was professor of theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge, and from 1975 he taught at Princeton University.
Anderson was a certified first degree-master of the Japanese board game Go.
