Anthony James Leggett

Sir

Anthony Leggett

KBE FRS HonFInstP
Sir; Anthony Leggett; KBE FRS HonFInstP
	Leggett in 2007
Born	Anthony James Leggett; 26 March 1938; Camberwell, London, England
Citizenship	British and American
Alma mater	University of Oxford (BA, DPhil)
Known for	Caldeira–Leggett model of quantum dissipation; Leggett–Garg inequality; Leggett inequality; Superfluid phase of helium-3;
Spouse	Haruko Kinase (m. 1972)
Awards	Maxwell Medal and Prize (1975); FRS (1980); IOP 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 Urbana-Champaign;
Thesis	(1964)
Doctoral advisor	Dirk ter Haar
Doctoral students	Amir Caldeira; Matthew Fisher; Mohit Randeria;

Sir Anthony James Leggett KBE FRS HonFInstP (born 26 March 1938) is a British–American theoretical physicist and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Leggett is 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 has shaped the theoretical understanding of normal and superfluid helium liquids and strongly coupled superfluids. He set directions for research in the quantum physics of macroscopic dissipative systems and use of condensed systems to test the foundations of quantum mechanics.

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