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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 199,703 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Anthony James Leggett is the 258th most popular physicist (down from 236th in 2019), the 844th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 768th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular British Physicist.

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

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Anthony James Leggett ranks 258 out of 717. Before him are Serge Haroche, Joseph Plateau, Gérard Mourou, Klaus Fuchs, Daniel Rutherford, and Osborne Reynolds. After him are John Cockcroft, Moshé Feldenkrais, Rainer Weiss, Abdul Qadeer Khan, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, and Philip Warren Anderson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Anthony James Leggett ranks 69. Before him are Terence Stamp, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, José Altafini, Etta James, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld. After him are J. J. Cale, Dean Reed, Kenny Rogers, Georg Baselitz, Carlos Bilardo, and Oscar Robertson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Anthony James Leggett ranks 844 out of 7,765. Before him are William Webb Ellis (1806), Colin Maclaurin (1698), Owen Tudor (1400), Peter Finch (1916), Robert Graves (1895), and Richard Hamilton (1922). After him are Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764), John Cale (1942), John Cockcroft (1897), Damon Hill (1960), Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (1671), and Albert Pierrepoint (1905).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Anthony James Leggett ranks 33. Before him are Andrew Huxley (1917), John Kendrew (1917), Nevill Francis Mott (1905), David J. Thouless (1934), Daniel Rutherford (1749), and Osborne Reynolds (1842). After him are John Cockcroft (1897), Joseph Swan (1828), Patrick Blackett (1897), Brian Josephson (1940), Freeman Dyson (1923), and Peter Mansfield (1933).

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