Anthony James Leggett
British physicist
Sir Anthony James Leggett KBE FRS (born 26 March 1938) is a British theoretical physicist. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[5]
Sir Anthony Leggett | |
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 Sir Anthony James Leggett | |
| Born | Anthony James Leggett 26 March 1938[1] Camberwell, London, England |
| Citizenship | British and American |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA, DPhil) |
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| Spouse |
Haruko Kinase (m. 1972) |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | |
| Doctoral advisor | Dirk ter Haar[3] |
| Doctoral students | |
| Website | services |
Leggett is known for his theory of low-temperature physics. He won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics.[6]
References
change- ↑ 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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- ↑ "Fellows of the Royal Society". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 16 March 2015.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Anthony James 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".
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