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A Mind Over Matter: The Life and Science of Philip W. Anderson

2020-10-12 , Zangwill, Andrew

Dr. Zangwill presents a biographical survey of the life and science of Nobel Laureate Philip W. Anderson, arguably the most productive and influential theoretical physicist of the second half of the twentieth century. He discusses Anderson's upbringing in the American Midwest during the Great Depression, his education at Harvard University, his service during WW II, and his subsequent career as a condensed matter physicist at Bell Laboratories, Cambridge University, and Princeton University. He shares the back story for some of his best-known scientific achievements and also for some of his forays into national and scientific politics. A few remarks about his activities as a public intellectual and his personal life round out the talk.

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Kinetics of heteroepitaxy

2003-10-31 , Zangwill, Andrew

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Walter Kohn and the Creation of Density Functional Theory

2014-09-22 , Zangwill, Andrew

The theoretical physicist Walter Kohn was awarded one-half the 1998 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his mid-1960's creation of an approach to the many-particle problem in quantum mechanics called density functional theory (DFT). DFT establishes that the ground state charge density provides a complete description of ALL the properties of any atom, molecule, or solid. This was a breakthrough (both conceptually and computationally) because it had been presumed previously that the vastly more complicated many-electron wave function was essential for this purpose. In this talk, I present a biographical sketch of Kohn's unusual educational experiences and the events in his professional career which led him to create DFT. A coda explains how the chemists came to award "their" Nobel prize to a card-carrying physicist.

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Local many-body effects in the optical response of narrow band solids

1986 , Zangwill, Andrew

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Albert Einstein - Physics and Hairstyles

2006-06-17 , Hunt, William D. , Zangwill, Andrew , Ludovice, Peter J.

Albert Einstein - Physics and Hairstyles, with guest Prof. Andrew Zangwill of the School of Physics at Georgia Tech

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