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Anthony James Leggett

1938 - Today

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Sir Anthony James Leggett (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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anthony James Leggett has received more than 197,746 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Anthony James Leggett is the 284th most popular physicist (down from 258th in 2019), the 840th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 843rd in 2019) and the 34th most popular British Physicist.

Anthony James Leggett is most famous for his work on the theory of superfluidity.

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  • 66

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  • 10.75

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  • 4.13

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Over the past year Anthony James Leggett has had the most page views in the with 21,116 views, followed by Chinese (4,124), and Japanese (2,425). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hakka (277.09%), Haitian (115.13%), and Latin (72.73%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Anthony James Leggett ranks 284 out of 851. Before him are Toshihide Maskawa, Antoine César Becquerel, Carl von Linde, Osborne Reynolds, Victor Weisskopf, and Walter Kohn. After him are Steven Chu, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Christoph Scheiner, Ettore Majorana, Yuri Oganessian, and Anna Mani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Anthony James Leggett ranks 74. Before him are Mamadou Tandja, Carlos Bilardo, Tomas Lindahl, Ivan Sutherland, Derek Jacobi, and Enrico Macias. After him are Ian Stewart, Ben E. King, Michael Rockefeller, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, Luigi Tenco, and Etta James.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Anthony James Leggett ranks 840 out of 8,785. Before him are Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton (1850), Æthelbald, King of Wessex (831), William Bateson (1861), John William Polidori (1795), Alan Parsons (1948), and Bernard Cornwell (1944). After him are Pete Postlethwaite (1946), Imelda Staunton (1956), James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell (1534), Charlotte, Princess Royal (1766), Prince John of the United Kingdom (1905), and Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony (1156).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Anthony James Leggett ranks 34. Before him are Charles Wheatstone (1802), David Brewster (1781), John Cockcroft (1897), Daniel Rutherford (1749), Andrew Huxley (1917), and Osborne Reynolds (1842). After him are Nevill Francis Mott (1905), Freeman Dyson (1923), James Jeans (1877), William Whewell (1794), Joseph Swan (1828), and John Stewart Bell (1928).

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