Philip W. Anderson
(1923-2020)
Philip W. Anderson was a theoretical physicist whose work on symmetry breaking in particle physics led to the development of the
Standard Model of particle physics.
Anderson earned his Ph.D from Harvard in 1949 with a thesis on the pressure broadening of spectral lines. He led the effort to transform solid-state physics into the more powerful theory of condensed matter physics,
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