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A Mind Over Matter is a biography of the Nobel-prize winner Philip W. Anderson, a person widely regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential physicists of the second half of the twentieth century.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zangwill, Andrew
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Anderson, P. W. > (Philip W.), > 1923-2020.
Anderson, P. W. > (Philip W.), > 1923-2020
Physicists > United States > Biography.
Physiciens > États-Unis > Biographies.
Physicists
United States
Electronic books.
Biography
Biographies
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • A Mind Over Matter: Philip Anderson and the Physics of the Very Many
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Prologue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Son of the Heartland
  • The Saturday Hikers
  • Formal Education
  • The Krebiozen Affair
  • Informal Education
  • Champaign-Urbana in the 1930s
  • A Snapshot
  • Chapter 3: Making Waves
  • College Accelerated
  • Wartime Service
  • Chapter 4: First Fruits
  • Choosing a Thesis Advisor
  • Thesis Problem Posed
  • Joyce Gothwaite
  • Thesis Problem Solved
  • Chapter 5: A Solid Beginning
  • Job Hunting
  • What Was Bell Labs?
  • What is Solid-State Physics?
  • William Shockley
  • Chapter 6: Breaking Symmetry
  • The Red Scare
  • New Mentors
  • Ferromagnetism
  • Antiferromagnetism
  • Symmetry Lost
  • Comings and Goings
  • A Journey to Japan
  • Chapter 7: Disorderly Conduct
  • Van Vleck's Legacy
  • Localized and Delocalized
  • George Feher
  • Silicon and Doped Silicon
  • An Experimental Puzzle
  • Chapter 8: Law in Disorder
  • A Theory of Localization
  • The Fortunes of Localization
  • The Two-Person Career
  • The Gang of Four
  • Chapter 9: The Love of His Life
  • What is Superconductivity?
  • Many-electron Physics
  • The BCS Model
  • Anderson and BCS
  • A Visit to Russia
  • Taming the Bad Actors
  • The Beauty of BCS
  • Chapter 10: The Cantabrigian
  • First Experiences
  • Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
  • Josephson Effects
  • The Higgs Mechanism
  • Physics Physique Fizika
  • The Half-Time Professor
  • Superfluid Helium
  • Port Isaac
  • Chapter 11: Hidden Moments
  • Magnetic Moments in Metals
  • The Anderson Impurity Model
  • Matthias' Influence
  • Mott's Influence
  • Friedel's Influence
  • The Local Moment Paper
  • The Kondo Effect
  • Out of the Wilderness
  • The Renormalization Group
  • A Nobel Rumor
  • Chapter 12: From Emergence to Complexity
  • Prestige Asymmetry
  • Are the Big Machines Necessary?
  • More is Different
  • Emergence
  • The Spin Glass
  • Pausing for a Breath
  • The Santa Fe Institute
  • Chapter 13: The Pope of Condensed Matter Physics
  • Bell Labs Redux
  • Princeton
  • On the Road
  • Private Communications
  • The Nobel Prize
  • Political Activism
  • The Superconducting Super Collider
  • Chapter 14: The Problem of a Lifetime
  • High-Temperature Superconductivity
  • The Cuprates
  • Resonating Valence Bonds
  • Bangalore and Beyond
  • The Lost Decade
  • Discord
  • Collapse & Revival
  • The Legacy of RVB
  • Chapter 15: Four Facts About Science
  • Science is not Democratic
  • Computers will not Replace Scientists
  • Statistical Methods are Misused and Often Misunderstood
  • Good Science has Aesthetic Qualities
  • Chapter 16: Conclusion
  • Who We Know
  • A Man in Full
  • Appendix: Highlights of the Scientific Career of Philip W. Anderson
  • Glossary
  • Index