ANTHONY JAMES LEGGETT
(Sir Anthony James Leggett)
The great scientist is almost always a radical thinker. Politicians are rarely radical thinkers and generally distrust anyone who is. This has always produced some friction between the great scientists and the great (and not so great) politicians.
Sir Anthony James Leggett KBE FRS is a theoretical physicist and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 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. 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.
