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I outline in this article, the work of the theoretical physicist P W Anderson. He was perhaps the most influential figure in condensed matter physics in the second half of the 20th Century, the ‘Gruff Guru’. His epochal contributions and impress on the field saw it emerge from obscurity as the largest subfield of contemporary physics.
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P W Anderson, More and Different: Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon, World Scientific, New York and Singapore, 2011. It is a unique kind of scientific autobiography. It also has a collection of some of his book reviews and occasional writings.
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T V Ramakrishnan FRS is a condensed matter physicist, with interests largely in the physics of electrons. He is a DST Year of Science Chair Professor, presently a distinguished associate in the Physics Department, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.
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Ramakrishnan, T.V. The Anderson Effects. Reson 25, 629–646 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-020-0980-4
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