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| 자료유형 | 단행본 |
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| 서명/저자사항 | A mind over matter : Philip Anderson and the physics of the very many/ Andrew Zangwill. |
| 개인저자 | Zangwill, Andrew. |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource (412 pages). |
| 기타형태 저록 | Print version: Zangwill, Andrew. A Mind over Matter. Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 짤2021 9780198869108 |
| ISBN | 9780192640550 0192640550 9780191905599 0191905593 |
| 내용주기 | Cover -- A Mind Over Matter: Philip Anderson and the Physics of the Very Many -- Copyright -- Contents -- Prologue -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Son of the Heartland -- The Saturday Hikers -- Formal Education -- The Krebiozen Affair -- Informal Education -- Champaign-Urbana in the 1930s -- A Snapshot -- Chapter 3: Making Waves -- College Accelerated -- Wartime Service -- Chapter 4: First Fruits -- Choosing a Thesis Advisor -- Thesis Problem Posed -- Joyce Gothwaite -- Thesis Problem Solved -- Chapter 5: A Solid Beginning -- Job Hunting -- What Was Bell Labs? What is Solid-State Physics? -- William Shockley -- Chapter 6: Breaking Symmetry -- The Red Scare -- New Mentors -- Ferromagnetism -- Antiferromagnetism -- Symmetry Lost -- Comings and Goings -- A Journey to Japan -- Chapter 7: Disorderly Conduct -- Van Vleck's Legacy -- Localized and Delocalized -- George Feher -- Silicon and Doped Silicon -- An Experimental Puzzle -- Chapter 8: Law in Disorder -- A Theory of Localization -- The Fortunes of Localization -- The Two-Person Career -- The Gang of Four -- Chapter 9: The Love of His Life -- What is Superconductivity? -- Many-electron Physics The BCS Model -- Anderson and BCS -- A Visit to Russia -- Taming the Bad Actors -- The Beauty of BCS -- Chapter 10: The Cantabrigian -- First Experiences -- Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking -- Josephson Effects -- The Higgs Mechanism -- Physics Physique Fizika -- The Half-Time Professor -- Superfluid Helium -- Port Isaac -- Chapter 11: Hidden Moments -- Magnetic Moments in Metals -- The Anderson Impurity Model -- Matthias' Influence -- Mott's Influence -- Friedel's Influence -- The Local Moment Paper -- The Kondo Effect -- Out of the Wilderness -- The Renormalization Group -- A Nobel Rumor Chapter 12: From Emergence to Complexity -- Prestige Asymmetry -- Are the Big Machines Necessary? -- More is Different -- Emergence -- The Spin Glass -- Pausing for a Breath -- The Santa Fe Institute -- Chapter 13: The Pope of Condensed Matter Physics -- Bell Labs Redux -- Princeton -- On the Road -- Private Communications -- The Nobel Prize -- Political Activism -- The Superconducting Super Collider -- Chapter 14: The Problem of a Lifetime -- High-Temperature Superconductivity -- The Cuprates -- Resonating Valence Bonds -- Bangalore and Beyond -- The Lost Decade -- Discord -- Collapse & Revival The Legacy of RVB -- Chapter 15: Four Facts About Science -- Science is not Democratic -- Computers will not Replace Scientists -- Statistical Methods are Misused and Often Misunderstood -- Good Science has Aesthetic Qualities -- Chapter 16: Conclusion -- Who We Know -- A Man in Full -- Appendix: Highlights of the Scientific Career of Philip W. Anderson -- Glossary -- Index |
| 요약 | 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. |
| 주제명(개인명) | Anderson, P. W.(Philip W.), -- 1923-2020. Anderson, P. W.(Philip W.), -- 1923- -- fast -- |
| 주제명(지명) | United States. --fast |
| 일반주제명 | Physicists --United States --Biography. Physiciens --E?tats-Unis --Biographies. Physicists. |
| 언어 | 영어 |
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