A Mind Over Matter
Philip Anderson and the Physics of the Very Many
(Sprache: Englisch)
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.
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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.
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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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „A Mind Over Matter “
Prologue; 1 Introduction; 2 Son of the Heartland; 3 Making Waves; 4 First Fruits; 5 A Solid Beginning; 6 Breaking Symmetry; 7 Disorderly Conduct; 8 Law in Disorder; 9 The Love of His Life; 10 The Cantabrigian; 11 Hidden Moments; 12 From Emergence to Complexity; 13 The Pope of Condensed Matter; 14 The Problem of a Lifetime; 15 Four Facts about Science; 16 Conclusion; Acknowledgments
Autoren-Porträt von Andrew Zangwill
Professor Zangwill earned a B.S. in Physics at Carnegie-Mellon University in 1976. His 1981 PhD in Physics at the University of Pennsylvania introduced the time-dependent density functional method. He worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn from 1981-1985 before taking up his present position at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1997 for theoretical studies of epitaxial crystal growth. He is the author of the monograph Physics at Surfaces (1988) and the graduate textbook Modern Electrodynamics (2013). In 2013, he began publishing scholarly work on the history of condensed matter physics.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Andrew Zangwill
- 2021, 416 Seiten, mit zahlreichen Abbildungen, Masse: 14,7 x 22,3 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 019886910X
- ISBN-13: 9780198869108
- Erscheinungsdatum: 12.02.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
A Mind Over Matter is an important book of interest not only to physicists but also to many historians and philosophers of science. Apart from providing a comprehensive review of Anderson's life and science. Helge Kragh, Metascience
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