Anthony James Leggett
Sir Anthony James Leggett (born March 26, 1938 in Camberwell , South London ) is Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana . He is a recognized authority in the theory of low temperature physics and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2003 for his pioneering work in the field of superfluidity , which laid the foundations for the theoretical understanding of liquid and superfluid helium and other strongly coupled superfluids.
He thus set the direction for research into quantum physics of macroscopic dissipative systems and the use of condensed systems to test the fundamentals of quantum mechanics.
Leggett studied at Balliol College of University of Oxford , where he in 1961 his Bachelor did Accounts and 1964 in ter Dirk hair doctorate . He then did a postdoc at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Kyoto University, Oxford and Harvard. In 1967 he became a lecturer and in 1978 a professor at the University of Sussex . Since 1983 he has been a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 1972 to 1974 he was visiting professor at the University of Tokyo, 1976/77 in Ghana and 1983 at Cornell University .
He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (since 1997), the American Philosophical Society , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Russian Academy of Sciences , he is also a Fellow of the Royal Society (Great Britain), the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics , as well as Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics (Great Britain).
In 2002 he received the Wolf Prize in Physics, in 1994 the John Bardeen Prize of the International Conference on the Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity (M2S) together with Gerassim Matwejewitsch Eliaschberg and in 1981 the Fritz London Memorial Prize .
Fonts
- Physics. Problems, issues, questions. Birkhäuser, 1989 (English original: The problems of physics. Oxford University Press, 1987 and 2006)
- Quantum liquids. Bose condensation and Cooper pairing in condensed matter systems. Oxford University Press, 2006
Web links
- Literature by and about Anthony James Leggett in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 2003 award ceremony for Anthony James Leggett
- AJ Leggett. In: Physics History Network. American Institute of Physics
- Schrödinger's cat science.orf.at, accessed on March 18, 2011
Individual evidence
- ^ John Bardeen Prize, (accessed March 4, 2019).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leggett, Anthony James |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British-American physicist and Nobel Prize winner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Camberwell , South London |