Professor
Anthony James Leggett
(
–
)
1938
2026
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
;
Urbana, IL
Physicist; Educator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Physics
Elected
1996
Research interests focused largely in the areas of foundations of quantum mechanics and low-temperature physics, in particular superfluidity, superconductivity and the recently stabilized Bose-condensed atomic gases. For many years encouraged experiments to probe quantum mechanics as close as possible to the scale of everyday life.
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