American theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner Philip Warren Anderson died on Sunday, March 29, in his 97th year of life. This is reported on March 30 by The New York Times with reference to the daughter of a scientist.
It is specified that this happened in Princeton, New Jersey. The causes of death of the physicist are unknown.
Anderson was born on December 13, 1923 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He then went to Harvard University, where he received his doctorate. The scientist contributed with his theories of localization, antiferromagnetism and high-temperature superconductivity.
In addition, the physicist was a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, the Royal Society of London and the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).
In 1977, Anderson, along with colleagues Neville Francis Mott and John Hasbrook van Fleck, won the Nobel Prize in Physics “for fundamental theoretical research into the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems.
