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Sir Anthony Leggett
Sir Anthony James Leggett
BornAnthony James Leggett
(1938-03-26) 26 Mairch 1938 (age 86)[1]
Camberwell, Lunnon, Ingland
ResidenceUnitit States
CitizenshipBreetish an American
Alma materVarsity o Oxford (BA, DPhil)
Kent for
Hauf-marrae(s)Haruko Kinase (m. 1972)
Awairds
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Institutions
Doctoral advisorDirk ter Haar[3]
Doctoral students
Ioan Kosztin
Wabsteid
services.iqc.uwaterloo.ca/people/profile/aleggett

Sir Anthony James Leggett KBE FRS[2] (born 26 Mairch 1938), haes been a professor o physics at the Varsity o Illinois at Urbana-Champaign syne 1983.[5] Leggett is widely recognised as a warld leader in the theory o law-temperatur physics, an his pioneerin wirk on superfluidity wis recognised bi the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics.[6]

References

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  1. LEGGETT, Sir Anthony (James). ukwhoswho.com. Who's Who. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. closed access publication – ahint peywaw (subscription needit)
  2. a b "Fellows of the Royal Society". London: Royal Society. Archived frae the original on 16 Mairch 2015.
  3. a b c d e Anthony James Leggett at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Freire Jr., Olival; Pessoa Jr., Osvaldo; Bromberg, Joan Lisa. Teoria quântica: estudos históricos e implicações culturais (in Portuguese). Campina Grande, Brazil: SciELO - EDUEPB. p. 71. ISBN 8578791266.
  5. "Anthony Leggett UIUC Faculty page".
  6. "Nobel Prize in Physics 2003".