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In memory of Philip W. Anderson

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Philip Warren Anderson is one of the founding fathers of modern condensed-matter physics. With his death on 29 March 2020, we have lost one of the most influential physicists of the twentieth century.

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  1. European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS) and Dipartimento di Fisica ed Astronomia, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

    Diederik S. Wiersma

  2. Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRIM), Torino, Italy

    Diederik S. Wiersma

  3. Université Grenoble Alpes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, LPMMC, Grenoble, France

    Bart A. van Tiggelen

  4. Complex Photonic Systems (COPS), MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands

    Ad Lagendijk

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Wiersma, D.S., van Tiggelen, B.A. & Lagendijk, A. In memory of Philip W. Anderson. Nat. Photonics 14, 401–402 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-020-0655-4

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