A Career in Theoretical Physics

A selection of articles by Philip W. Anderson, comprising mainly reprints of articles selected for their importance, their review character, or their unavailability. Professor Anderson provides comments on each article and an introductory essay on his general attitude to the practice of science.

List of contents

Theory of Dirty Superconductors; Plasmons, Gauge Invariance and Mass; Considerations on the Flow of Superfluid Helium; Kondo Effect I - IV; The Fermi Glass: Theory and Experiment; Many-Body Effects at Surfaces; Disorder: A Frontier of Theoretical Physics; Measurement in Quantum Theory and the Problem of Complex Systems; Spin Glass 1: A Scaling Law Rescued; 50 Years of the Mott Phenomenon: Insulators, Magnets, Solids and Superconductors as Aspects of Strong-Repulsion Theory. (Part contents).

Product details

• Authors: P. W. Anderson, Philip Anderson
• Assisted by: Philip W Anderson (Editor), Philip W. Anderson (Editor)
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.1994
• EAN: 9789810217181
• ISBN: 978-981-02-1718-1
• No. of pages: 896
• Dimensions: 192 mm x 261 mm x 31 mm
• Weight: 1479 g
• Series: World Scientific Series in 20t; World Scientific 20th Century
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Atomic physics, nuclear physics; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Astronomy: general, reference works