Professor Philip Phillips received his bachelor's degree in chemistry and mathematics from Walla Walla College in 1979 and his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Washington in 1982. After a Miller Fellowship at Berkeley, he joined the faculty in the Department of Chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1984-1993). Professor Phillips came to the University of Illinois Department of Physics in 1993.

Choy, T-P and Phillips, PW. Doped Mott insulators are insulators: hole localization in the cuprates. Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 196405-1 (2005).

Phillips, PW and Chamon, C. Breakdown of one-parameter scaling in quantum critical scenarios for high-temperature copper-oxide superconductors. Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 107002-1 (2005).