John H. Van Vleck – Nominations

Sir Nevill F. Mott – Nominations

Philip W. Anderson – Curriculum Vitae

 

Birth Date: December 13, 1923, Indianapolis, Indiana.
B.S. summa cum laude Harvard, ’43;
MA ’47, PhD ’49, MA (Cantab) ’67.
M. 1947, Joyce Gothwaite, d. Susan Osborne b. 1948.
Naval Research Lab. 1943-5 (Chief Spec. X, USNR 1944-5) Bell Tel Labs. 1949-53, 1954-;
Memb. Tech. Staff to 1959, Dept. Head 1959-61, MTS 1961-74, Asst. Dir. 1974-76,
Consult. Dir. 1977-. Fulbright Lecturer, Tokyo, 1953-4;
Visiting Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge, 1961-2;
O.K. Buckley Prize A.P.S. 1964;
Am. Acad. A&S 1966, N.A.S. 1967;
Visiting Prof. Theor. Phys. U. of Cambridge 1967-75, Fellow Jesus College 1969-75;
Prof. of Physics, Princeton U. 1975-;
Dannie Heinemann Prize, Gottingen Acad. Sci. 1975.

 

Philip W. Anderson died on 29 March 2020.

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Philip W. Anderson – Nobel Lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1977

Local Moments and Localized States

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Sir Nevill F. Mott – Nobel Lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1977

Electrons in Glass

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John H. Van Vleck – Nobel Lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1977

Quantum Mechanics
The Key to Understanding Magnetism

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Philip W. Anderson – Nobel Symposia

Presentation at the Nobel Centennial Symposia, 2001: Condensation and Coherence in Condensed Systems
December 4-7, 2001, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg

Superconductivity in High Tc Cuprates: The Cause is No Longer a Mystery

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John H. Van Vleck – Banquet speech

John H. Van Vleck’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1977

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen,

On behalf of the three recipients of the award in physics may I express our deepest gratitude and appreciation. May I add that it is a personal satisfaction to me to be sharing the award with Sir Nevill Mott, a friend of almost 50 years standing and Philip Anderson, a former student of mine from whom I learned a great deal. A plaque on the wall of the science building of Gustavus Adolphus College in the States begins as follows, “In the annals of human progress one of the honored names is that of Alfred Nobel. No recognition is more highly regarded in our modern world than the Nobel Prize…” This building is called Nobel Hall with the permission of the Nobel Foundation and is appropriately located in St. Peter, Minnesota, our state richest in Scandinavian heritage. There is one thing that the plaque does not mention. Even the most munificent endowment can lose its vitality and purpose through inapt and indifferent management. Were it not for the administrative skill, enthusiasm and verve which Sweden displays in connection with the Nobel award including the participation of Their Majesties, the decisions of the prize-awarding bodies and the interest of the student body and of the people as a whole, the prize would not have the renown and éclat which it does today throughout the world.

From Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 1977, Editor Wilhelm Odelberg, [Nobel Foundation], Stockholm, 1978

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Philip W. Anderson – Photo gallery

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Philip W. Anderson – Other resources

Links to other sites

Philip W. Anderson’s page at Princeton University

On Philip W. Anderson from American Institute of Physics