Philip Warren Anderson

American physicist (1923-2020)

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Lived 1923–2020, aged 97United States
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    Aged 97
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Theoretical physicist who won the 1977 Nobel Prize for work on electronic structure in magnetic and disordered systems. Shared the award with Nevill Mott and John Van Vleck.

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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."

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