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Anthony James Leggett
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Anthony James Leggett

1938 – 2026 · aged 88

British physicist (1938–2026)

Born
26 Mar 1938 · Camberwell
Died
8 Mar 2026 · Urbana

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 101 years
  1. 26 Mar 1938BornBorn in Camberwell
  2. 1975AwardMaxwell Medal and Prize
  3. 1980AwardFellow of the Royal Society
  4. 1981AwardFritz London Award
  5. 1992AwardIOP Dirac Medal
  6. 1999AwardFeenberg Medal
  7. 2002AwardWolf Prize in Physics
  8. 2003AwardNobel Prize in Physics
  9. 2004AwardKnight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
  10. 2011AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense
  11. 2015AwardHonorary doctor of Toulouse-III University
  12. 8 Mar 2026DiedDied in Urbana

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1938 – 2026).

  1. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  2. 1938Munich Agreement
  3. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  4. 1939 – 1945World War II
  5. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  6. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  7. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  8. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  9. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  10. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  11. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  12. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  13. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  14. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  15. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  16. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  17. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  18. 1956Suez Crisis
  19. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  21. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  22. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  23. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  25. 1968Prague Spring
  26. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  27. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  28. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  29. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  30. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  31. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  32. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  33. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  34. 1985Schengen Agreement
  35. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  36. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  37. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  38. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  39. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  40. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War

Biography

Sir Anthony James Leggett (26 March 1938 – 8 March 2026) was a British–American theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Leggett was 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 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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