Anthony James Leggett

Sir Anthony Leggett
Sir Anthony James Leggett
Born	Anthony James Leggett (1938-03-26) 26 March 1938 (age 86)[1] Camberwell, London, England
Citizenship	British and American
Alma mater	University of Oxford (BA, DPhil)
Known for	Caldeira-Leggett model of quantum dissipation Quantum mechanics Superfluid phase of helium-3 Leggett–Garg inequality
Spouse	Haruko Kinase ​ (m. 1972)​
Awards	Maxwell Medal and Prize (1975) FRS (1980)[2] Paul Dirac Medal (1992) Nobel Prize in Physics (2003) Wolf Prize in Physics (2002) KBE (2004)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of Sussex University of Waterloo Institute for Quantum Computing University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Doctoral advisor	Dirk ter Haar[3]
Doctoral students	Amir Caldeira[4] Matthew Fisher[3] Mohit Randeria
Website	services.iqc.uwaterloo.ca/people/profile/aleggett

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]

Leggett is known for his theory of low-temperature physics. He won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics.^[6]

1. ↑ LEGGETT, Sir Anthony (James). Who's Who. Vol. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help) (subscription required)
2. ↑ "Fellows of the Royal Society". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 16 March 2015.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Anthony James Leggett at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
4. ↑ 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.
5. ↑ "Anthony Leggett UIUC Faculty page".
6. ↑ "Nobel Prize in Physics 2003".