Anthony Leggett
Sir Anthony James Leggett (26 March 1938 – 8 March 2026) was a British theoretical physicist. He was a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[5] Leggett was known for his theory of low-temperature physics. He won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics.[6]
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| Born | Anthony James Leggett 26 March 1938[1] Camberwell, London, England |
| Died | 8 March 2026 (aged 87) |
| Citizenship | British and American |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA, DPhil) |
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| Fields | Physics |
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From 2006 to 2016, he worked at the Institute for Quantum Computing in Waterloo, Ontario. He was chief scientist at the Institute for Condensed Matter Theory, a research institute at the UIUC.
His research focused on cuprate superconductivity, superfluidity in atomic gases, low temperatures of amorphous solids, the formulation of quantum mechanics and topological quantum computation.
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Leggett at the Global Young Scientists Summit in Singapore (2016)
References
- ↑ LEGGETT, Sir Anthony (James). Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com 2015A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc.
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- ↑ Fellows of the Royal Society. London: Royal Society.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Anthony Leggett at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Freire Jr., Olival. Teoria quântica: estudos históricos e implicações culturais (in pt) (January 2011). Campina Grande, Brazil: SciELO – EDUEPB. p. 71. ISBN 978-8578791261.
- ↑ Anthony Leggett UIUC Faculty page.
- ↑ Nobel Prize in Physics 2003..
- ↑ Remembering Anthony J. Leggett (1938-2026). RIKEN (March 9, 2026). Retrieved March 9, 2026.
- ↑ Sir Anthony Leggett, physicist who won the Nobel Prize for his research into superfluids (9 March 2026)Telegraph. Retrieved 9 March 2026.
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