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P. W. Anderson, an epochal figure in Physics, passed away on 29 March 2020, at the age of 96, at Princeton, NJ, USA. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977 (which he shared with N. F. Mott and J. H. van Vleck ‘for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems’). Anderson was named the most creative living physicist in a statistical survey in 2006. His foundational contributions, perhaps more than those of anyone else, transformed the field of condensed matter physics from obscurity to prominence. Even the name ‘Condensed matter physics’ is due to him1 .
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