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发信人: ndrovers (ndrovers), 信区: material
标题: P.W.Anderson简介（weidanjj极力推荐的固体物理学家�
发信站: 听涛站 (2002年12月12日23:02:04 星期四), 站内信件

I am a condensed matter theorist, a field in which I played the role of a ma
jor agenda-setter for 40 or so years (in fact I believe a colleague and I na
med the field in 1967 when we named our group in Cambridge--before that it w
as "solid state theory"). On occasional forays outside CMT I worked on pulsa
r glitches with David Pines and invented the "Higgs" boson in 1962. Since 19
87 I have worked in that field almost exclusively on "High-Tc" superconducti
vity, a terribly complex and controversial field in which my contributions h
ave at least the virtue of longevity. I became emeritus in 1997 at Princeton
, where I have been since 1975; but my longest association was with Bell Lab
s 1949-84.
I got into the Santa Fe Institute universe via the condensed matter phenomen
on of the "spin glass', which I named in 1970 and produced the first theory
with Sir Sam Edwards in 1975. Via work with Kirkpatrick and palmer, and late
r Stein, we came to realise that this was an important link between statisti
cal physics and complex optimisation, and in the latter guise it spawned alg
orithms(simulated annealing), work on computational complexity, on neural ne
ts (the Hopfield model etc), and on evolution on rugged landscapes. This was
part of the Santa Fe Institute "toolkit" in the early days which for instan
ce we showed off to John Reed of Citicorp in 1986.
I also had developed an interest in economics via dilletantish studies in Ca
mbridge, and was glad to help organise the global economy workshop in 1987,
choosing a group of hard scientists to try to mesh with Arrow's ten economis
ts, apparently with some success. I retain a watching interest in econ espec
ially in pareto distributions on which I have one article and lots of acknow
ledgements.
An older theme arose from my 1971 article "More is Different", which I follo
w up by writing on topics in epistemology of science.
My earlier interests included Spectral Line Broadening, Magnetism, Broken Sy
mmetry, Superfluidity in 3He, Transport Theory and Localization, Random Stat
istical Systems, and Prebiotic Evolution.

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