5 Most Famous Harvard Students of All Time

1.      Philip W. Anderson (1923-2020)

Philip Warren Anderson, a Harvard Alumnus and a Nobel Prize winner in 1970, was a theoretical physicist. He made significant contributions to the theory of Antiferromagnetism, electron localization, high-temperature superconductivity, and symmetry breaking. He also named an offshoot of physics called condensed matter physics.

Anderson completed his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1949. Before that, he graduated from the same institute five years ago. Not just a Nobel Laureate, Philip W. Anderson won many awards and honors in his life. Some of the names of his accomplishments include the ‘Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize’, ‘The Golden Plate Award’, and the National Medal of Science’.

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