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A mind over matter : Philip Anderson and the physics of the very many / Andrew Zangwill.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zangwill, Andrew, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physicists--United States--Biography.
- Physicists.
- Anderson, P. W. (Philip W.), 1923-2020.
- Anderson, P. W.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (416 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- '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.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Son of the heartland
- Making waves
- First fruits
- A solid beginning
- Breaking symmetry
- Disorderly conduct
- Law in disorder
- The love of his life
- The Cantabrigian
- Hidden moments
- From emergence to complexity
- The pope of condensed matter
- The problem of a lifetime
- Four facts about science
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- This edition also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-190559-3
- 0-19-264055-0
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