P W Anderson

P W Anderson was educated at Harvard, with a brief hiatus (194345) for war work. From 19491984 he was associated with the AT&T Bell Laboratories, but also held a number of temporary or part-time academic positions: 195354 Fulbright scholar, University of Tokyo; 196162 Overseas Fellow Churchill College Cambridge; 196775 "Visiting Professor", Cambridge University; 1975-present Joseph Henry Professor, Princeton University; 199394 He spent a year as Eastman Professor, Balliol College, Oxford. In...See more

P W Anderson was educated at Harvard, with a brief hiatus (194345) for war work. From 19491984 he was associated with the AT&T Bell Laboratories, but also held a number of temporary or part-time academic positions: 195354 Fulbright scholar, University of Tokyo; 196162 Overseas Fellow Churchill College Cambridge; 196775 "Visiting Professor", Cambridge University; 1975-present Joseph Henry Professor, Princeton University; 199394 He spent a year as Eastman Professor, Balliol College, Oxford. In addition to the Nobel Prize, his honors include the National Medal of Sciences in 1982, the Heinemann prize of the Gottingen Academy and the Guthrie medal of the IOP among other awards; also memberships in the Royal Society, the Japan Academy, the NAS and the American Philosophical Society and half a dozen others. Among distinguished lectureships he has held are the London, Regents' (UCSD), Loeb (Harvard), John and Abigail Van Vleck (Minn.) and Bethe lectureships. See less