RIP Anthony J Leggett (1938 - 2026), superfluidity

[robphy]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Leggett

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/science/anthony-james-leggett-dead.html
https://physicsworld.com/a/condense...-nobel-laureate-anthony-leggett-dies-aged-87/

https://news.illinois.edu/tony-leggett-nobel-laureate-and-theoretical-physicist-dies/

(Leggett lecturing about Schrödinger’s cat at the Loomis Laboratory, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, circa 1985. Photo courtesy of Emilio Segrè visual archives of the American Institute of Physics)

Theoretical physicist Sir Anthony James Leggett, widely recognized as a world leader in condensed matter physics and for his pioneering work on superfluidity and the quantum mechanics of macroscopic systems, died March 8. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor was 87 years old.

Leggett had been the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign since 1983. His research in theoretical condensed matter physics and the foundations of quantum mechanics won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids.

https://physics.illinois.edu/people/directory/profile/aleggett
https://icmt.illinois.edu/
https://uwaterloo.ca/institute-for-quantum-computing/contacts/anthony-leggett

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(2023) Tony Leggett: Nobel Prize, Don't Study Quantum Mechanics, & Paradigm Shifts | The UIUC Talkshow #33


A very recently posted "interview series with the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, by his former student, Dr. Bin Yi".
[From Googling, I think Bin Yi was an undergraduate in physics at UIUC.]

• A life in Physics: The Remarkable Journey of Sir Anthony J. Leggett
• A Dialogue on Science and Society
• Inside the mind of a Nobel Laureate: Sir Anthony J. Leggett on Physics and Beyond

(2024) Sir Anthony Leggett on science, superfluidity, and serendipity - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics


(2013) Tony Leggett - Saturday Physics for Everyone lecture - Illinois Physics

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Institute of Quantum Computing IQC is a scientific research institute at the University of Waterloo
Sir Anthony Leggett Lecture Series

(2011) Anthony Leggett 2011 Summer Lecture Series - Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information
(2014) Anthony Leggett 2014 Summer Lecture Series - The Physics of Superconducting Devices (Lectures #1 to #12)
- https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query="Leggett"+"Lecture+Series"

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https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2003/leggett/lecture/

Clip: Anthony J. Leggett's speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 2003


2003 Nobel Prize lecture by Anthony J. Leggett in physics
Superfluid 3-He: The Early Days as Seen by a Theorist

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https://experts.illinois.edu/en/persons/anthony-j-leggett/publications/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=r_rhoa0AAAAJ&hl=en
https://inspirehep.net/authors/1019446

https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=105800
https://academictree.org/physics/tree.php?pid=75964


Leggett, A.J. (2004), 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics for Theoretical Work on Superfluid 3He.
ChemPhysChem, 5: 946-958. https://doi.org/10.1002/cphc.200400134

A theoretical description of the new phases of liquid 3He
Anthony J. Leggett
Rev. Mod. Phys. 47, 331 – Published 1 April, 1975 Erratum Rev. Mod. Phys. 48, 357 (1976)
https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.47.331


https://www.amazon.com/Problems-Physics-OPUS-books-Science/dp/0192192051?tag=pfamazon01-20
https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Liqu...tter-Graduate/dp/0192856944?tag=pfamazon01-20

 

[berkeman]

A very long life well lived.