Andrew Zangwill (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, School

A Mind Over Matter

Philip Anderson and the Physics of the Very Many

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 147mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 692g
• ISBN-13: 9780198869108
• ISBN-10: 019886910X
• Artikelnr.: 60012542

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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