Philip Warren Anderson Net Worth

Philip Warren Anderson was born in 1923 in Indianapolis, United States and is a renowned physicist. He grew up in Urbana, Illinois and showed a distinct inclination towards mathematics while in high school. He won a full-support National Scholarship and took admission in Harvard University, but had to discontinue his course to work for the Naval Research Laboratory during the Second World War. After the war, he returned to education and earned a doctorate. He spent most of his professional career at Bell Laboratories, where he developed Anderson localisation and invented the Anderson Hamiltonian. His most important work was on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1977. Anderson is considered one of the most important scientists of his generation.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Physicist
Birth Day December 13, 1923
Birth Place Indianapolis, United States
Age 100 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign Capricorn
Alma mater Harvard University U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Known for Anderson localization Anderson Hamiltonian Higgs Mechanism Spin glass
Awards Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1964) Nobel Prize in Physics (1977) ForMemRS (1980) National Medal of Science (1982)
Fields Physics
Institutions Bell Laboratories Princeton University Cambridge University
Doctoral advisor John Hasbrouck van Vleck
Doctoral students F. Duncan M. Haldane Piers Coleman

💰 Net worth

Philip Warren Anderson, renowned physicist in the United States, is expected to possess a net worth ranging from $100,000 to $1 million by the year 2024. Considered as one of the most prominent figures in his field, Anderson has made significant contributions to the realm of condensed matter physics, earning him numerous accolades including a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977. With his expertise and groundbreaking discoveries, it comes as no surprise that his net worth reflects his esteemed position in the scientific community.

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Biography/Timeline

1940

Anderson was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and grew up in Urbana, Illinois. He graduated from University Laboratory High School in Urbana in 1940. Afterwards, he went to Harvard University for undergraduate and graduate work, with a wartime stint at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in-between. In graduate school he studied under John Hasbrouck van Vleck.

1949

From 1949 to 1984 he was employed by Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, where he worked on a wide variety of problems in condensed matter physics. During this period he developed what is now called Anderson localization (the idea that extended states can be localized by the presence of disorder in a system); invented the Anderson Hamiltonian, which describes the site-wise interaction of electrons in a transition metal; proposed symmetry breaking within particle physics (this played a role in the development of the Standard Model and the development of the theory behind the Higgs mechanism, which in turn generates mass in some elementary particles); created the pseudospin approach to the BCS theory of superconductivity; made seminal studies of non-s-wave pairing (both symmetry-breaking and microscopic mechanism) in the superfluidity of He3; and helped found the area of spin-glasses. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1963.

1964

He was awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize in 1964, the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977 and was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1980. He was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1982.

1967

From 1967 to 1975, Anderson was a professor of theoretical physics at Cambridge University. In 1977 Anderson 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. Co-researchers Sir Nevill Francis Mott and John van Vleck shared the award with him. In 1982, he was awarded the National Medal of Science. He retired from Bell Labs in 1984 and is currently Joseph Henry Professor of Physics, Emeritus at Princeton University.

1972

Anderson has also made conceptual contributions to the philosophy of science through his explication of emergent phenomena. In 1972 he wrote an article called "More is Different" in which he emphasized the limitations of reductionism and the existence of hierarchical levels of science, each of which requires its own fundamental principles for advancement.

2006

A 2006 statistical analysis of scientific research papers by José Soler, comparing number of references in a paper to the number of citations, declared Anderson to be the "most creative" amongst ten most cited physicists in the world.