Philip Anderson in 1977, the year he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for his study of the effects of disorder in solids By Adrian ChoPhilip Anderson, the theoretical physicist whose ideas reshaped condensed matter physics and stretched to the forefront of other fields, died yesterday in Princeton, New Jersey.
He was 96. Anderson had spent the past 45 years at Princeton University, which confirmed his death in a statement.Feisty and cantankerous, Anderson made contributions that rival those of famed American theorist Richard Feynman, who died in 1988, says Michael Norman, a theorist at Argonne National Laboratory: “Phil was a true giant of physics, one of the greatest ever.”Anderson established himself in the 1950s by showing how disorder