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Philip Warren Anderson [1923-0] American

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Scientist, Physicist

Philip Warren Anderson is an American physicist and Nobel laureate. Anderson has made contributions to the theories of localization, antiferromagnetism, symmetry breaking, and high-temperature superconductivity, and to the philosophy of science through his writings on emergent phenomena.

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The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult.		101
Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.		102
I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.	Architecture	103
The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.		104
An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.		105
The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.		106
The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.		107
The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts.		108
The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.		109
I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science.		110
My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests.		111
One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course.		112

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