| Anthony J. Leggett  AKA Anthony James Leggett
Born: 26-Mar-1938
Birthplace: London, England
Gender: Male
Religion: Agnostic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Particle physicist, explored superfluidity Physicist Anthony J. Leggett has studied normal and superfluid helium liquids and other strongly coupled superfluids, and explained why helium becomes a superfluid when it is exposed to a magnetic field at extreme low temperatures. Superfluidity is a phase of liquid matter characterized by a complete absence of viscosity, which allows superfluids to act bizarrely, flowing upwards out of open containers or circulating endlessly without friction a closed loop. For his contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2003.
Leggett's areas of research include cuprate superconductivity, low-temperature phenomena, macroscopic quantum systems, phase coherence and superfluidity in very degenerate atomic gases, quantum fluids, quantum measurement theory, statistical physics, and theoretical condensed matter physics. His work has advanced the theoretical understanding of the quantum physics that underlies macroscopic dissipative systems and condensed systems. Born in London, he holds dual citizenship in England and the United States. Father: (physics teacher)
Mother: (mathematics teacher)
Sister: Clare
Sister: Judith
Brother: Terence (d.)
Brother: Paul (d.)
Wife: Haruko Kinase (anthropologist, b. 20-Nov-1950, m. 1972)
Daughter: Elizabeth Asako (b. 28-Sep-1978)
High School: Beaumont College, London (1954)
University: BA Classical Literature, Baliol College, Oxford University (1959)
University: BS Physics, Merton College, Oxford University (1961)
University: PhD Pysics, Oxford University (1964)
Scholar: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1964-65)
Scholar: Kyoto University (1965-66)
Lecturer: University of Sussex (1967-69)
Teacher: University of Sussex (1969-83)
Teacher: Cornell University (1983)
Professor: MacArthur Professor of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1983-)
IOP James Clerk Maxwell Medal and Prize 1975
IOP Sir Francis Simon Memorial Award 1981
IUPAP Fritz London Memorial Prize 1981
IOP Paul Dirac Medal and Prize 1991
QMBT Eugene Feenberg Medal 1999
Wolf Prize in Physics 2002 (with Bertrand I. Halperin)
Nobel Prize for Physics 2003 (with Alexei A. Abrikosov and Vitaly L. Ginzburg)
Knight of the British Empire 2004
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Institute of Physics
American Philosophical Society
American Physical Society
Institute of Physics (U.K.)
National Academy of Sciences
Royal Society
Russian Academy of Sciences Foreign Member
English Ancestry Paternal
Irish Ancestry Maternal
Naturalized US Citizen 2002
Obama for America
Author of books:
The Problems of Physics (1987)
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