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American physicist (1923-2020)

Also known as: Philip Warren Anderson, P. Anderson, P. W. Anderson, Philip Anderson, Филип Уоррен Андерсон, فيليب أندرسون

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Richard Feynman1918–1988
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Writes on self-organization and emergent order in complex systems, extending the emergence ideas central to Anderson's work. (AI reason)
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