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Anthony James Leggett

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Sir Anthony Leggett
Sir Anthony James Leggett
Born
Anthony James Leggett

(1938-03-26)26 March 1938(age 86)[1]
Camberwell,London, England
CitizenshipBritish and American
Alma materUniversity of Oxford(BA, DPhil)
Known for
Spouse
Haruko Kinase
(m.1972)
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Institutions
Doctoral advisorDirk ter Haar[3]
Doctoral students
Websiteservices.iqc.uwaterloo.ca/people/profile/aleggett

Sir Anthony James LeggettKBEFRS(born 26 March 1938) is a British theoretical physicist. He is a professor emeritus at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[5]

Leggett is known for his theory oflow-temperature physics.He won the 2003Nobel Prize in Physics.[6]

References[change|change source]

  1. LEGGETT, Sir Anthony (James).Who's Who.Vol. 2015 (onlineOxford University Pressed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc.{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help)closed access (subscription required)
  2. "Fellows of the Royal Society".London:Royal Society.Archived fromthe originalon 16 March 2015.
  3. 3.03.1Anthony James Leggettat theMathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Freire Jr., Olival; Pessoa Jr., Osvaldo; Bromberg, Joan Lisa (January 2011).Teoria quântica: estudos históricos e implicações culturais(in Portuguese). Campina Grande, Brazil: SciELO – EDUEPB. p. 71.ISBN978-8578791261.
  5. "Anthony Leggett UIUC Faculty page".
  6. "Nobel Prize in Physics 2003".