Background
Anthony J. Leggett was born in London, England in March 1938.He attended
Balliol College, Oxford where he majored in Literae Humaniores (classical
languages and literature, philosophy and Greco-Roman history),and thereafter
Merton College, Oxford where he took a second undergraduate degree in
Physics. He completed a D.Phil.(Ph.D.) degree in theoretical physics under
the supervision of D.ter Haar. After postdoctoral research in Urbana, Kyoto
and elsewhere he joined the faculty of the University of Sussex (UK) in
1967,being promoted to Reader in 1971 and to Professor in 1978.In 1983
he became John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Professor at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a position he currently holds. His principal
research interests lie in the areas of condensed matter physics,
particularly high-temperature superconductivity, and the foundations of
quantum mechanics.
Memberships of Learned Societies
- Royal Society (1980)
- American Philosophical Society (1991)
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1996)
- Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (1997)*
- Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Sciences (1999)
- Fellow of the Institute of Physics
- Fellow of the American Physical Society
- Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK) (1999)
* Now regular member following receipt of US
citizenship in Aug.2001 (dual with UK).
Main Visiting Appointments Since 1973
- Visiting Professor, Cornell University April 1973
- Visiting Professor, Cornell University July 1974
- Visiting Professor, University of Illinois April 1975
- Royal Society Japan Fellow, University of Tokyo 1973-4
- Visiting lecturer at UST, Kumasi, Ghana September - December 1976
- Visiting lecturer at UST, Kumasi, Ghana September - December 1977
- Bethe Lecturer, Cornell University April 1980
- Visiting Scientist, Cornell University January - August1983
- Morris Loeb Lecturer, Harvard University February 1985
- Visiting Professor, Inst. of Theoretical Physics, University of
Minnesota March - June1990
- BBV Foundation Professor, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid June 1996
- Visiting Professor, ENS, Paris June - July 1997
- Astor Lecturer, Oxford University June 1998
- Mueller Lecturer, Penn State University November 2001
- Cave Memorial Lecturer, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario March
2002
- Visiting Professor, University of Florida January - February
2003
- Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis Distinguished Visiting Professor,
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada October 2006-
Community Roles
- Co-organizer, ITP Program on Quantum Noise in Macroscopic Systems, spring 1984
- Divisional Associate Editor, Physical Review Letters,1987-93
- Co-organizer, ITP Program on Bose Einstein Condensation, February - June 1998
- External examiner, National University of Singapore,1997-1998
- Co-organizer, Benasque Workshop on Physics of ULtracold Dilute
Atomic Gases, June 2002
- Editorial Board, New Journal of Physics, 2002- (?)
- Board of Reviewing Editors, Science, 2003- (?)
- Editorial Board, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 2005- (?)
Honors & Awards
- Maxwell Medal and Prize (Institute of Physics, UK), 1975
- Fritz London Memorial Award 1981
- Simon Memorial Prize 1981
- Paul Dirac Medal and Prize (Institute of Physics, UK), 1992
- John Bardeen Prize (with G. M. Eliashberg) (M^2S) 1994
- Eugene Feenberg Memorial Medal,1999
- Wolf Prize in Physics (with B. I. Halperin), 2003
- Nobel Prize in Physics (with A. A. Abrikosov and V. L. Ginzburg),
2003
Books
- The Problems of Physics, OPUS series, Oxford University Press,1987
(reissued 2006)
- Quantum Liquids: Bose Condensation and Cooper Pairing in Condensed
Matter Systems, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006
Papers
- About 100 full papers in refereed journals, about 50 in conference
proceedings etc.
