He worked on nuclear physics, fundamental particles, and neutron stars; He made valuable contributions to the physics of information systems at the theoretical and experimental levels.
US physicist. He worked in the field of solids physics. He was born on December 13, 1923, in Indianapolis. He received a diploma in electronics-physics from Harvard University in 1943 and a doctorate in 1949.
He first worked as a technical staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories, which he entered the same year; He then assumed the presidency of the Theoretical Physics Department and the Physics Research Laboratory, and after 1976 became the consultant of the organization. Anderson, who taught magnetism and spectroscopy at Tokyo University from 1953 to 1954, and theoretical physics at Cambridge University from 1967 to 1975, became a professor at Princeton University in 1976. For his work in spectroscopy, magnetism, and superconductivity, he was awarded the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics from the US J.H. Van Vleck and the Englishman N. Mott.
Anderson's interests include condensed matter, ferroelectric and ferromagnetism phenomena, magnetic resonance, and probability problems such as spectral line width, superconductivity, and amorphous matter structure. He also worked on nuclear physics, elementary particles, and neutron stars; Beginning in 1979, he made valuable contributions to the physics of information systems at the theoretical and experimental levels. Anderson, who previously worked in gas spectroscopy, explained the effects of interactions between molecules on the width of spectral lines. Concentrating his subsequent work on the causes of the magnetization properties of metals, he revealed the relationship between the lattice structure defects of metals and magnetism. Establishing the relationship between defective structures and additives and electron conductivity is complementary to the work of Bardeen, Schrieffer, and Cooper on the same topic. Anderson, who also worked with the British physicist Josephson for a while, showed that a phenomenon similar to the "Josephson Effect", which confirmed that electric current can flow between two superconductors separated by an insulating barrier, also applies to fluids.