Anderson, P. W.

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 p...