Get Free Shipping on orders over $0
A Career in Theoretical Physics : World Scientific 20th Century Physics - Philip W. Anderson

A Career in Theoretical Physics

By: Philip W. Anderson

Paperback | 1 June 1994 | Edition Number 2

At a Glance

Paperback


RRP $120.99

$108.99

10%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $27.25 with

 or 

Ships in 15 to 25 business days

Philip W. Anderson is a theoretical physicist who has been described as the most imaginative of condensed matter physicists working today, or, alternatively, as the "godfather' of the subject. His contributions as often set the agenda for others to work on as they constitute specific discoveries. Examples of the former are the Anderson model for magnetic impurities (cited for the Nobel Prize), the problem of spin glass and the recognition of the fluctuating valence problem; of the latter superexchange, localization (a second factor in the Nobel Prize), codiscovery of the Josephson effect, prediction and microscopic explanation of superfluidity in He-3, the first suggestion of the "Higgs" mechanism, the solution of the Kondo problem, the mechanism of pulsar glitches, flux creep and flow in superconducting magnets, the microscopic mechanism of high Tec superconductivity, and more. Only a selection of the topics on which he has worked could be included in the present volume, which consists primarily of reprints of articles selected for their importance, their review character, or their unavailability. Professor Anderson has provided brief comments on how each came to be written, as well as an introductory essay giving his general attitude to the practice of science.

More in Physics

A Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0 - Bill Bryson

RRP $36.99

$29.75

20%
OFF
The Breath of the Gods : The History and Future of the Wind - Simon Winchester
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics : 3rd edition - David J. Griffiths

RRP $109.95

$93.75

15%
OFF
The Future Loves You : How and Why We Should Abolish Death - Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston
A Brief History Of Time : From Big Bang to Black Holes - Stephen Hawking
Conceptual Physics, Global Edition : 13th Edition - Paul Hewitt

RRP $156.40

$124.99

20%
OFF
Conceptual Integrated Science : 3rd Edition - Jennifer Yeh

RRP $143.80

$113.99

21%
OFF
I Am Light - Henry Herz

Hardcover

$37.99

Implementing R for Statistics - Christophe  Chesneau

RRP $180.95

$165.75

Physics : Principles with Applications, Global Edition - Douglas Giancoli
Physics: For Global Scientists and Engineers Volume 1 : 2nd Edition - Raymond A. Serway