Philip Warren Anderson
Philip Warren Anderson
Philip Warren Andersonis 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth13 January 1923
CountryUnited States of America
england europe sabbatical spent
An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.
spring years hiking
A souvenir of those years is a small cottage on the cliffs of Cornwall, where Joyce and I spend a spring month every year, hiking and seeing friends.
atheist attitude may
We atheists can... argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not reveal itself in normal social discourse.