Died 2026-03-08.
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Anthony James Leggett
Sir Anthony James Leggett was a British–American theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Leggett was widely recognised as a world leader in the theory of low-temperature physics, and his pioneering work on superfluidity was recognised by the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics. He shaped the theoretical understanding of normal and superfluid helium liquid…
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science · British–American physicist (1938–2026) · physicist · university teacher · also Anthony James Leggett, Anthony Leggett, Sir Anthony James Leggett, Sir Anthony Leggett, Leggett
Born 26 March 1938 · Died 8 March 2026 · Q192718
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Remember that no piece of honestly conducted research is ever wasted, even if it seems so at the time. Put it away in a drawer, and ten, twenty or thirty years down the road, it will come back and help you in ways you never anticipated.
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2026· 3 entries
“The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see the subject from a new perspective.”
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“Remember that no piece of honestly conducted research is ever wasted, even if it seems so at the time. Put it away in a drawer, and ten, twenty or thirty years down the road, it will come back and help you in ways you never anticipated.”
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of Toulouse-III University (2015).
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2013· 1 entry
Became the founding director of the Shanghai Center for Complex Physics
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense (2011).
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2004).
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2003· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (2003).
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded Wolf Prize in Physics (2002).
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1999· 1 entry
Won Feenberg Medal (1999).
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1992· 1 entry
Won IOP Dirac Medal (1992).
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Fritz London Award (1981).
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1980· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1980).
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A Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1985, an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics (HonFInstP) in 1998, and a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy in 2011
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1975· 1 entry
Won Maxwell Medal and Prize (1975).
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1938· 1 entry
Born 1938-03-26.
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