Anthony Leggett
Sir Anthony Leggett | |
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 Sir Anthony James Leggett | |
| 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) |
| Known for | |
| Spouse |
Haruko Kinase (m. 1972) |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | |
| Doctoral advisor | Dirk ter Haar[3] |
| Doctoral students | |
| Website | services |
Sir Anthony James Leggett KBE FRS (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]
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.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ LEGGETT, Sir Anthony (James). Who's Who. Vol. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc.
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(subscription required) - ↑ "Fellows of the Royal Society". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 16 March 2015.
- 1 2 Anthony Leggett at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ 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. 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". Telegraph. 9 March 2026. Retrieved 9 March 2026.
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