Named a Top Five Book of 2012 by Physics Today, USA."Anderson has
put together an entertaining and instructive collection of highly
readable reviews, columns, talks, and unpublished essays on science
and the scientists he has known. He is rarely inappropriately
provocative, and he is a pleasure to read."Physics TodayPhilip
Anderson was educated at University High School in Urbana,
Illinois, at Harvard (BS 1943, PhD 1949), and further educated at
Bell Laboratories, where his career (1949-1984) coincided with the
greatest period of that remarkable institution. Starting in 1967,
he shared his time with Cambridge University (until 1975) and then
with Princeton, where he continued full time as Joseph Henry
Professor until 1997. As an emeritus he remains active in research,
and at press time he was involved in several scientific
controversies about high profile subjects, in which his point of
view, though unpopular at the moment, is likely to prevail
eventually. His colleagues have made him one of the two physicists
most often cited in the scientific literature, for several
decades.His work is characterized by mathematical simplicity
combined with conceptual depth, and by profound respect for
experimental findings. He has explored areas outside his main
discipline, the quantum theory of condensed matter (for which he
won the 1977 Nobel Prize), on several occasions: his paper on what
is now called the "Anderson-Higgs mechanism" was a main source for
Peter Higgs' elucidation of the boson; a crucial insight led to
work on the dynamics of neutron stars (pulsars); and his concept of
the spin glass led far afield, to developments in practical
computer algorithms and neural nets, and eventually to his
involvement in the early years of the Santa Fe Institute and his
co-leadership with Kenneth Arrow of two influential workshops on
economics at that institution. His writing career started with a
much-quoted article in Science titled "More is Different" in 1971;
he was an occasional columnist for Physics Today in the 1980s and
1990s. He was more recently a reviewer of science and
science-related books for the Times (London) Higher Education
Supplement as well as an occasional contributor to Science, Nature,
and other journals.
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