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Anthony James Leggett

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Summary
	Works written	The Problems of Physics The problems of physics
	Education	University of Oxford Merton College, Oxford Balliol College
	Profession	Physicist
	Date of birth	1938-03-26


Nobel Prize Winner
	Nobel Honor	"for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids" (2003, Superconductivity, Superfluid, Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Vitaly Ginzburg)


Person
	Employment history	University of Sussex University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
	Places lived	United States of America Camberwell
	Ethnicity	Briton Irish people
	Place of birth	Camberwell
	Country of nationality	United Kingdom United States of America
	Religion	Catholic
	Gender	Male


Award Winner
	Awards Won	Nobel Prize in Physics (for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids, 2003, Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Vitaly Ginzburg) Dirac Medal of the Institute of Physics (1992) Wolf Prize in Physics (for key insights into the broad range of condensed matter physics: Leggett on superfluidity of the light helium isotope and macroscopic quantum phenomena; and Halperin on two- dimensional melting, disordered systems and strongly interacting electrons., 2002, Bertrand Halperin)

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