Philip Phillips (physicist)

Theoretical physicist

Philip W. Phillips

Alma mater| University of Washington
Known for| Condensed matter physics
Scientific career
Institutions| University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Thesis|  Application of many-body and interchange perturbation theory to phosphorescence  (1982)
Doctoral advisor| Ernest R. Davidson
Website| http://people.physics.illinois.edu/Phillips/index.htm

Philip W. Phillips is a theoretical condensed matter physicist at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He has contributed to the studies of various topics in modern physics including high temperature superconductivity and gauge–gravity duality.

## Early life and education

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Phillips was born Scarborough, Tobago in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, and moved to the United States at age 10.[1] He attended Walla Walla College, graduating with a B.A. degree in chemistry and mathematics in 1979. In 1981, he was awarded a Danforth-Compton Predoctoral Fellowship at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry in 1982 from the University of Washington, studying phosphorescence lifetimes in small molecules. [1][2][3]

## Professional career

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Phillips was awarded a postdoctoral Miller Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley and became interested in many-body phenomena in disordered systems. In 1984, he joined the faculty at the Chemistry Department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an associate professor, where he worked on Anderson localization.[3] During his time at MIT, he was a visiting fellow at Balliol College at Oxford University, and was promoted to associate professor in 1990. In 1993, he joined the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he became a professor in the Department of Physics in 2000. His research is in theoretical solid-state physics, focusing on understanding electron transport and magnetism in disordered and strongly correlated systems, particular strange metals in cuprate superconductors.[4]

## Awards and accomplishments

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In 1988, Phillips was awarded the Senior Xerox Award for Faculty Research, and became a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[5] In 2000, he received the prestigious Edward Bouchet award from the American Physical Society for "opening new vistas in the study of disordered and strongly correlated condensed matter physics, including the random dimer model and the size dependence of the Kondo effect.".[6] He became a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2002,[7] and a University Scholar in 2003. In 2005, he became a College of Engineering Bliss Faculty Scholar at the University of Illinois, and was a National Science Foundation American Competitiveness and Innovation Fellow from 2009-2011.[5]

In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[8] In 2020, he became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2015. [9]

## Major publications

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Philips is the author of Advanced Solid State Physics, a textbook that describes modern advanced-level solid state physics at the graduate level, with a focus on cutting-edge topics such as topological insulators, strongly correlated electrons, and electron transport, published by Cambridge University Press in 2012.[10] He has also contributed chapters to four other books.[5]

* Dunlap, David H.; Wu, H-L.; Phillips, Philip W. (1990-07-02). "Absence of localization in a random-dimer model". Physical Review Letters. 65 (1): 88–91\. Bibcode:1990PhRvL..65...88D. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.65.88. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 10042179.
* Lv, Weicheng; Wu, Jiansheng; Phillips, Philip (2009-12-11). "Orbital ordering induces structural phase transition and the resistivity anomaly in iron pnictides". Physical Review B. 80 (22): 224506. arXiv:0905.1704. Bibcode:2009PhRvB..80v4506L. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.80.224506. ISSN 1098-0121. S2CID 119276556.

## References

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1. ^ a b "Philip W. Phillips - Physicist of the African Diaspora". www.math.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
2. ^ "Philip Phillips's Biography". The HistoryMakers. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
3. ^ a b "Q&A: Philip Phillips: A Roundabout Approach to Superconductivity". Science Magazine. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
4. ^ "Philip W Phillips | ILLINOIS PHYSICS". physics.illinois.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
5. ^ a b c "Philip Phillips CV" (PDF). Retrieved 2020-06-10.
6. ^ "2000 Edward Bouchet Award". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
7. ^ "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
8. ^ "AAAS Members Elected as Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
9. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
10. ^ Phillips, Philip (2012). Advanced Solid State Physics. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139031066. ISBN 978-0-521-19490-7. Retrieved 2020-06-10. `{{cite book}}`: `|website=` ignored (help)

## External links

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* "Philip W. Phillips". Retrieved 2020-09-15.

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