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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