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Also Known As Philip Warren Anderson
Born December 13, 1923 ā€¢ Indianapolis ā€¢ Indiana
Died March 29, 2020 (aged 96) ā€¢ Princeton ā€¢ New Jersey
Awards And Honors National Medal of Science (1982) ā€¢ Nobel Prize (1977)

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